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Section 8

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

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by increasing rent to market rate cannot then evict an assisted
family who pays only their statutorily required portion of the
rent—the family’s financial ability to remain is the core of the
enhanced voucher provision. But upon expiration of a HAP
contract, the value and substance of an enhanced voucher is
informed primarily by the family’s rental agreement with the
property owner. And nothing in the enhanced voucher
provision, or elsewhere in the statute, explicitly or implicitly
requires property owners to renew such agreements. 6
        We conclude that § 1437f(t)(1)(B) obligates HUD to
provide “enhanced” financial assistance to be credited toward
an assisted family’s rental obligations during any period in
which the family remains eligible under § 1437f(t)(1)(C), and
that § 1437f(t)(1)(C) speaks only to the ways in which the
family’s conduct may relieve HUD of that financial obligation.
Section 1437f(t) does not limit property owners’ nonrenewal
rights.
              C.     The Termination Provision