Legal Opinion
Burbank Apartments Tenant Association v. Kargman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 13, 2016No. SJC 11872PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
This case arises out of a decision made by the defendants, the principals and owners of Burbank Apartments (Burbank), not to renew Burbank’s project-based Section 8 housing assistance payments contract (HAP) with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) when its forty-year mortgage subsidy contract expired on March 31, 2011. In lieu of those project-based subsidies, the defendants opted instead to accept from its tenants Section 8 enhanced vouchers, enabling tenants living in units subsidized on a project basis to remain as tenants under an alternative Federal…
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