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Resident Rights and Responsibilities

for non-public housing

   This brochure is being distributed to you because the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has ultimate jurisdiction over the project in which you live, has provided some form of assistance or subsidy for this apartment building. As part of its dedication to maintaining the best possible living environment for all residents, your HUD field office encourages and supports the following:
002 Residents Rights To Organize   From The National Low-income Housing Coalition (Public Housing)
 

SECTION (8) HOUSING

Section (236)

   PART 245-Tenant Participation in Multifamily Housing Projects
       
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Fact Sheet Project Based Sec(8)

How Rent Is Determined

  

This Fact Sheet is a general guide to inform the Owner/Management Agents (OA) and HUD assisted residents of the responsibilities and rights regarding income disclosure and verification.
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Fact Sheet Sec(236)

How Rent Is Determined

  

This Fact Sheet is a general guide to inform the Owner/Management Agents (OA) and HUD assisted residents of the responsibilities and rights regarding income disclosure and verification.
       
005 HUD Quality of Standards  

HUD housing must be decent, safe, sanitary and in good repair. Owners of housing described in 5.701(a), mortgagors of housing described in  5.701(b), and Public Housing Authorities and other entities approved by HUD owning housing described in  5.701(c), must maintain such housing in a manner that meets the physical condition standards set forth in this section in order to be considered decent, safe, sanitary and in good repair.

006 R.A.B.
 What is It?
What is required?		   Forming a Resident Advisory Board / The PHA's Responsibilities and Member Duties.  Every PHA is required to have a RAB; with a few exceptions.
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Landlord and tenant law resource

From OSB Tel-Law

   The following links are designed to help answer some of your questions about landlord and tenant law. The information provided here is not intended to cover every situation. The resources listed below contain general legal information that should not be used as a substitute for specific legal advice. Please remember that the law is always changing through actions of the courts and the Legislature.
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