Topic: Can you evict when housing does not make payments?

Where are my housing peeps at?!?
Help me understand!
If you have a resident who is “housing” and find that housing has not made a payment on the account, nor the resident. Essentially you have not received any payments for this resident…
Can you evict when housing does not make payments?
Never worked with housing so any helpful insight would be greatly appreciated!
Might I add, these communities are in DC….

Most likely the resident did not do their annual recertification with the housing authority.

Why move straight to eviction ? Ask your resident to reach out to the voucher worker and also contact the housing agency by ourself to find out why no payments have been made. Message me if you need any advice or have any questions

Megan Goodmundson Trust me! I avoid eviction at all cost but we are talking a year with no payments.

I’ve never really had a subsidy provider just miss a payment. Have you reached out to them? Have they ended their assistance? Something may be going on. If resident misses their payment, you’re allowed to evict just like any other resident.

Lee Tifani That’s what I have been most confused about. I’ll have to take the next steps and make contact to get the clarification.

Lauren Scruggs have you physically seen the resident? They could be not living there anymore. A skip out would explain the no payments

Lauren Scruggs you should ask both the resident and the housing agency for the most recent hap rent portions letter. This will tell you what is the resident rent portion. What is the hap portion and what is the effective date. So you can make sure your charges match correctly

Lee Tifani agree, usually if you have a contract from day one of the lease you will eventually get the payments might be a paperwork slow up, needing a copy of the lease or something but never have I seen housing not pay if contract was executed.

in NY, NJ & De, 90 Days on the housing payment, after 90 days you can seek double if it's Hud or Sec 8 housing for the total amount missed( if it was their fault ( sometimes the resident is at fault due to them not following through with their part of the paperwork), but the resident is still responsible for his/her portion and after the 5th you can charge a late fee on his portion per housing

You would need to find out if there is an error with their move in file and determine why the subsidy portion isn't being paid. However, when the resident isn't paying their portion you can file them.

You can notify housing and typically they can either remove the resident from the program or reassess them to see if housing needs to pay the full rent amount

James Shannon It appears this community has had failed attempts for almost a year…what’s the next option if we can’t get housing to make payment?

Unless the tenant did something wrong, no judge in DC will allow you to evict.
Which agency are you missing payments from?

Tasha Tasha Is non payment of rent considered “something wrong”?

Tasha Tasha My understanding has always been non-payment of rent is the easiest breach of contract to evict on. Is it different in DC?

Lauren Scruggs if they’re paying their portion, you’ll have a difficult time. If they were terminated for some reason and haven’t been paying and the agency will never pay, you’ll have better luck.

I believe it jurisdiction specific. But in Fulton county (atlanta, GA) we could file an eviction if the resident didn’t pay their portion.

James Shannon Everything I have read shows that we are within our rights to evict on “market rent” portion of rent, but I have not seen anything on when housing does not make payments.

There is a HAP contract and you can not evict if HAP has not made their payment. You can evict if the resident has not made their payment. You need to reach out to the housing authority and see what happened likely they will correct and send it on next month’s payment.

Always be sure your lease is for the full amount. The tenant is ultimately reaponsible. Once you issue a notice of non payment, they wil usually get right on whatever they are missing with their housing caseworker. If not, they usually can find another agency in town to help with rent ans if that doesnt work, unfortunately FED.

Sometimes the tenant has to make a payment first, like with SER in Michigan.

correct