Facts: A New York resident's lease requires the resident to furnish the owner with complete and accurate information regarding his household income. In 2006, the housing authority's acting inspector general informed the site manager that they had conducted an investigation of the...
Facts: When a resident applied for Section 8 benefits, she reported that she worked for U.S. Bank and earned total weekly wages of $375. The resident showed the local housing authority a current pay stub. The application also included an affirmation that the contained information is true...
Facts: A resident with arthritis and an autoimmune disease complained that the lack of heat in her building exacerbated her disability. After code enforcement and Section 8 inspectors inspected the site, the resident claimed that the site management blamed her for the inspection and...
Facts: A resident claimed that during her tenancy at a site she was harassed and assaulted by her neighbors for her alleged disability, that the site and its employees failed to take corrective action, and that her Section 8 specialist at the local housing authority conspired with the...
Facts: A resident, an unemployed single mother of four children, had been receiving Section 8 vouchers for eight years when the events giving rise to the conflict in this case occurred. When she completed her annual recertification process in June 2010, she signed a copy of the public...
Facts: A resident's daughter sued the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) for terminating the resident's enrollment in the Section 8 voucher program. HPD determined that the resident's subsidy should be terminated due to her absence from her...
Facts: An owner leased a rental housing facility for elderly residents to a local public housing authority (PHA). The PHA in turn entered into a housing assistance payment (HAP) contract with HUD to provide low-income housing under an amendment enacted in 1974 to the Housing Act of 1937....
Facts: An owner financed the construction of an apartment building in 1968 with a mortgage insured under the National Housing Act. In 1992, the owner and the United States, acting through HUD, entered into a Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) contract. Under the contract, in exchange for...
Facts: A resident had been receiving rent subsidies under HUD's Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program for eight years when she failed to provide the local public housing authority (PHA) with timely change-of-income information required by local rules.
Facts: A resident signed a one-year Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher lease with an owner. The owner claimed that she served a “Notice of Landlord's Intention not to Renew Section 8 Lease upon Expiration of Lease Term” on both the resident and the office that managed the...
Facts: Residents sued owners for refusing to accept their Section 8 vouchers. The antidiscrimination clauses in New York City's Local Law 10 prohibit owners from refusing to accept these vouchers. The owners argued that one resident's household composition made her ineligible to...
Facts: Owners of two multifamily housing sites had entered into 30-year housing assistance payment (HAP) contracts with HUD in the late 1970s. Under the HAP contracts, the owners were required to maintain and operate their units and related facilities so as to provide decent, safe, and...
