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INTERNAL PROTOTYPE — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — DO NOT SEND

Section 8

Citation
Section 8
Parent Document
Theodore Hayes v. Philip Harvey, 874 F.3d 98 (2017)
Effective Date
2017-10-18

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family and the dissent argue that the 2000 amendment is
evidence that Congress intended to clarify that property owners
have no say in the assisted family’s election to remain. In our
view, through the 2000 amendment Congress intended to make
clear that, following a valid opt-out, HUD could not force an
assisted family to leave the unit and that the family’s enhanced
vouchers must be credited toward their rental obligations. See
Park Vill., 636 F.3d at 1156 (finding that the statute “does not
authorize owners to raise their rents to a reasonable market
rate, but then to refuse to accept payment by means of an
enhanced voucher, and evict an ‘assisted family’ for
nonpayment of rent”). But after a rental agreement naturally
expires, so too do the attendant rental obligations. At that point,
the statute goes silent. Nothing in its text explicitly or impliedly
obligates property owners to continuously renew enhanced-
voucher tenancies.