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: An Iowa resident sued to overturn a PHA's decision to terminate her Section 8 housing assistance based on her failure to report income. The resident challenged the PHA's policy of treating a failure to report each of her child's Social Security benefits as a separate...
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: 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...
The Senate Appropriations Committee recently passed S. 1596, which provides funding for HUD, the Department of Transportation, and other programs. The measure provides nearly $37 billion to fund HUD programs in fiscal year (FY) 2012. While the bill funds many programs at levels similar to FY...
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: 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...
The proposed fiscal year (FY) 2012 fair market rents (FMRs) were published in the Federal Register on Aug. 19. The final FMRs are expected to be published by Oct. 1. The final FMRs are used in the Housing Choice Voucher, the Moderate Rehabilitation, the project-based voucher, and other...
Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it has opened a civil investigation into allegations of discriminatory policing by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) members based in the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, Calif. The investigation will focus on...
Earlier this year, HUD audited the Philadelphia Housing Authority's (PHA) payments for outside legal services. The audit was a response to a citizen's complaint alleging the misuse of funds, a HUD auditor's concerns regarding PHA's use of outside attorneys on prior audits, and...
