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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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The majority cannot know that Congress did not draw
these distinctions between ordinary and enhanced vouchers. It
has no basis to assume that the enhanced voucher statute—
which was enacted by a different Congress, looking at a
different population of beneficiaries, regulating a different set
of landlords, and serving different purposes than the ordinary
voucher provisions—must nevertheless provide the same
protections upon the expiration of a lease as an ordinary
voucher. Cf. Section 8 Housing: Hearing Before the Sen.
Subcomm. on Hous. and Transp., 106th Cong. (1999) (written
testimony of Rep. Rick Lazio, Chairman, H. Subcomm. Hous.
and Cmty.) (stating that the purpose of the enhanced voucher
statute is to “allow particularly vulnerable populations the
ability to remain in their own homes”). Congress explicitly
provided that enhanced voucher holders—and not ordinary
voucher holders—“may elect to remain.” We must give effect