Violence Against Women Act. The owner must comply with the Violence Against Women Act, as amended, and HUD’s implementing regulation at 24 CFR part 5, Subpart L, and program regulations.
Violence Against Women Act. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994, as amended (VAWA), provides housing protections for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in many of HUD’s housing programs. HUD’s regulations implementing VAWA, as amended by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, are found in the applicable program regulations and 24 CFR Part 5, Subpart L, Protection for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking (collectively, the VAWA rule). The specific HUD programs that are subject to the VAWA housing protections are listed in the “covered housing program” definition at 24 CFR 5.2003, and as may be identified by HUD through further regulations, notices, or any other means. In general, the VAWA rule provides that an applicant for assistance or tenant assisted under a covered housing program may not be denied admission to, denied assistance under, terminated from participation in, or evicted from the housing on the basis or as a direct result of the fact that the applicant or tenant is or has been a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, if the applicant or tenant otherwise qualifies for admission, assistance, participation, or occupancy. The VAWA rule also requires the establishment of emergency transfer plans for facilitating the emergency relocation of certain tenants who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. For the specific requirements of the VAWA rule, see 24 CFR Part 5, Subpart L, and the applicable program regulations. VAWA, as reauthorized by the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022, further provides that no public housing agency or owner or manager or housing assisted under a covered housing program shall discriminate against any person because that person has opposed any act or practice made unlawful by the housing title of VAWA or because that person testified, assisted, or participated in any related matter. It also provides that no public housing agency or owner or manager of housing assisted under a covered housing program shall coerce, intimidate, threaten, interfere with, or retaliate against any person who exercises or assists or encourages a person to exercise any rights or protections under the housing title of VAWA. VAWA also protects the right to report crime and emergencies from housing. It establishes that landlords, homeowners, tenants, residents, occupants, and guests of, a...
Violence Against Women Act. Recipient acknowledgment form
Violence Against Women Act. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is applicable to this Lease.
Violence Against Women Act. (VAWA) Protections
(A) HUD’s regulations protecting victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, found at 24 CFR part 5, subpart L, apply to this rental agreement.
Violence Against Women Act. (1) The Landlord may not consider incidents of domestic violence, dating violence or stalking as serious or repeated violations of the lease or other “good cause” for termination of assistance, tenancy or occupancy rights of the victim of abuse.
(2) The Landlord may not consider criminal activity directly relating to abuse, engaged in by a member of a tenant’s household or any guest or other person under the tenant’s control, cause for termination of assistance, tenancy, or occupancy rights if the tenant or an immediate member of the tenant’s family is the victim or threatened victim of that abuse.
(3) The Landlord may request in writing that the victim, or a family member on the victim’s behalf, certify that the individual is a victim of abuse and that the Certification of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence or Stalking, Form HUD-91066, or other documentation as noted on the certification form, be completed and submitted within 14 business days, or an agreed upon extension date, to receive protection under the VAWA. Failure to provide the certification or other supporting documentation within the specified timeframe may result in eviction.
(4) By signing this Addendum, Xxxxxx acknowledges receipt of Notice of Occupancy Rights under the Violence Against Women Act.
Violence Against Women Act. 1. The Landlord may not consider incidents of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking as serious or repeated violations of the lease or other “good cause” for termination of assistance, tenancy or occupancy rights of the victim of abuse.
2. The Landlord may not consider criminal activity directly relating to abuse, engaged in by a member of a tenant’s household or any guest or other person under the tenant’s control, cause for termination of assistance, tenancy, or occupancy rights if the tenant or an immediate member of the tenant’s family is the victim or threatened victim of that abuse.
3. The Landlord may request in writing that the victim, or a family member on the victim’s behalf, certify that the individual is a victim of abuse and that the Certification of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault or Stalking, Form HUD-5382, or other documentation as noted on the certification form, be completed and submitted within 14 business days, or an agreed upon extension date, to receive protection under the VAWA. Failure to provide the certification or other supporting documentation within the specified timeframe may result in eviction.
4. By signing this Addendum, Tenant acknowledges receipt of Notice of Occupancy Rights under the Violence Against Women Act.
Violence Against Women Act. The owner must comply with the Violence Against Women Act, as amended, and HU CFR part 5, Subpart L, and program regulations.
a. Any of the following actions by the owner (including a principal or other interested party) is a breach of the HAP contract by the owner:
(1) If the owner has violated any obligation under obligation to maintain the unit in accordance with the HQS.
(2) If the owner has violated any obligation under any other housing assistance payments contract under Section 8.
(3) If the owner has committed fraud, bribery or any other corrupt or criminal act in connection with any Federal housing assistance program.
(4) For projects with mortgages insured by HUD or loans made by HUD, if the owner has failed to comply with the regulations for the applicable mortgage insurance or loan program, with the mortgage or mortgage note, or with the regulatory agreement; or if the owner has committed fraud, bribery or any other corrupt or criminal act in connection with the mortgage or loan.
(5) If the owner has engaged in any drug-related criminal activity or any violent criminal activity.
b. If the PHA determines that a breach has occurred, the PHA may exercise any of its rights and remedies under the HAP contract, or any other available rights and remedies for such breach. The PHA shall notify the owner of such determination, including a brief statement of the reasons for the determination. The notice by the PHA to the owner may require the owner to take corrective action, as verified or determined by the PHA, by a deadline prescribed in the notice.
c. the HAP contract include recovery of overpayments, suspension of housing assistance payments, abatement or other reduction of housing assistance payments, termination of housing assistance payments, and termination of the HAP contract.
d. The PHA may seek and obtain additional relief by judicial order or action, including specific performance, other injunctive relief or order for damages.
e. Even if the family continues to live in the contract unit, the PHA may exercise any rights and remedies for owner breach of the HAP contract.
f. exercise of any right or remedy for owner breach of the HAP contract is not a
11. waiver of the right to exercise that or any other right or remedy at any time.
a. The owner must provide any information pertinent to the HAP contract that the PHA or HUD may reasonably require.
b. The PHA, HUD and the Comptroller General of the United States shall have full and free access to t...
Violence Against Women Act. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9 of this Lease, or any other provision contained herein, the following shall not be considered violations of the Lease constituting defaults and bases for terminating the tenancy or occupancy rights of a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking:
1. An incident or incidences of actual threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking perpetrated against the victim.
2. Criminal activity directly relating domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, engaged in by a member of the Tenant’s Household or any Guest or Other Person under the Tenant’s Control, if the Tenant or immediate member of the Tenant’s Household is a victim of that domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking; provided, however, HACP may divide this Lease for the purpose of evicting, removing or terminating the occupancy rights of a Household member, whether or not such Household member is a signatory to this Lease, who engages in criminal acts of physical violence against Family members, affiliated individuals, or others, without evicting, removing or otherwise penalizing the victim of such violence, who is also a Tenant or lawful occupant of the Dwelling Unit.
3. The foregoing exceptions shall not apply unless the victim delivers to HACP a certification on one of the following forms:
a. A HUD-approved form supplied by HACP attesting that she/he is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking and that the incident(s) in question are bona fide violations of such actual or threatened abuse; or
b. Documentation signed by an employee, agent or volunteer of a victim service provider, an attorney, or a medical professional from whom the victim has sought assistance in addressing domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or the effects of the abuse, in which the professional states under penalty of perjury that the professional’s belief that the incident(s) in question are bona fide incidents of abuse and the victim has signed or attests to the documentation; or
c. A federal, state, or local police report or court record describing the crime or incident(s) in question.
4. The victim must deliver the certification to HACP within fourteen (14) business days after HACP requests the certification. If the victim does not deliver the certification to HACP within the aforesaid period, HACP may terminate the tenancy of the Tenant or any lawful occupant of the Dwelli...
Violence Against Women Act. The Recipient is obligated to operate and agree to operate all housing programs that are regulated by the Department in a manner that complies with the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (“VAWA”) (34 U.S.C. § 12291 et seq.) and the Department’s implementing regulations located at 24 C.F.R. Part 5, Subpart L et seq., including, but not limited to the following: Notification of occupancy rights, 24
