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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

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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         In fact, the Ninth Circuit found that requiring property
owners to enter into HAP contracts could “render essentially
worthless an owner’s right to lawfully opt-out of its
involvement in the Section 8 program” and “frustrate
Congress’s clear intention in the 1996 amendments to the Act
to end so-called ‘endless leases,’ under which owners could not
refuse to renew the leases of Section 8 tenants at the conclusion
of a lease term.” Park Vill., 636 F.3d at 1161–62. The same
reasoning applies here. Requiring property owners to
continuously renew rental agreements would render their opt-
out “essentially worthless.”