Johnson v. Housing Authority of Jefferson Parish

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

The sole question for us to decide in this appeal is whether participants in the federal Housing Act voucher program (the “voucher program”) may bring a private action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 1 to challenge the calculation of their utility allowances by public housing authorities under § 1437f(o)(2) of the United States Housing Act 2 and implementing regulations. 3 In answering this question, we need not and therefore do not reach the merits of the participating tenants’ underlying challenge; our inquiry is limited to whether Plaintiffs-Appellants have a private right of…