§ 982.457 - Owner refusal to lease.

(a) Section 8(t) of the 1937 Act (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)) provides that an owner who has entered into a HAP contract under Section 8 of the 1937 Act on behalf of any tenant in a multifamily housing project shall not refuse:

(1) To lease any available dwelling unit in any multifamily housing project of the owner that rents for an amount not greater than the fair market rent for a comparable unit to a holder of a rental certificate under Section 8 and to enter into a HAP contract respecting the unit, if a proximate cause of the refusal is the status of the prospective tenant as a holder of a certificate; or

(2) To lease any available dwelling unit in any multifamily housing project of the owner to a voucher holder and to enter into a HAP contract respecting the unit, a proximate cause of which is the status of such prospective tenant as a holder of such voucher.

(b) For the purposes of Section 8(t), the term multifamily housing project means a residential building containing more than four dwelling units.