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In 2016, a New York City Housing Authority-owned and managed public housing site converted to semi-private ownership under the PACT program. When a tenant who obtained a Section 8 project-based voucher after the conversion died, NYCHA sought to evict her adoptive daughter who was living the unit...
Concerned about the continued presence of smoke in the community, a tenant with an expiring lease asked her landlord if she could renew on a month-to-month rather than annual basis ...
After the utility company turned off the power to her apartment, a Section 8 tenant and her boyfriend secretly broke into the apartment building’s utility closet and reconnected her electricity ...
A minor living with her mother on the second floor of an affordable housing community pushed through a window screen and fell to the ground 15 feet below ...
A 5-year-old autistic boy living in an insect-infested Philadelphia public housing building with no working smoke detectors set fire to the bugs crawling in his family’s Christmas tree, lighting a blaze that burned down the building and killed 12 people ...
After nearly two years of participating in Section 8, a PHA resident got a double dose of bad news: Her landlord was evicting her for violating the lease and exercising its authority under HUD regulations to revoke her housing voucher. A hearing was held ...
In 2018, the owner of a NYC public housing property converted the premises and its residents to a Section 8 project-based voucher program via the PACT/RAD program. When the last tenant of record listed on the Section 8 lease died in 2020, the owner terminated his subsidy ...
A D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA) resident pled guilty to criminal gun charges—possession of an unregistered firearm—after police officers carrying out a search warrant seized loaded handguns from his apartment. A few days later, the DCHA sent him an eviction notice for allegedly engaging in crimi...
A landlord sent an eviction notice to a Section 8 resident for not reporting his full household income. Specifically, the landlord claimed that the resident had self-completed Employment Verification forms during previous periodic certifications indicating that he was a driver for RUS Transporta...
A Minnesota appeals court recently ruled that a federally subsidized owner wasn’t required to wait out HUD’s 10-day “discussion period” before suing to evict a tenant who had threatened violence in the management office.
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