Is it legal to evict someone and cut them off of HUD if they’ve only been charged for a crime?

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Is it legal to evict someone and cut them off of HUD if they’ve only been charged for a crime?

My friend receives SSI and was receiving HUD. He got drunk one night with some friends and a woman who had been hanging around there and he ended up having sex with the woman then she said he raped her. He has been charged but not been to court. Someone notified HUD and he was cut off and then one of his neighbors called the owners. They said they were afraid of him but he has lived there 4 years and helped everyone with things in their apartments and he’s never bothered anyone. So he was evicted from his apartment.

Asked on June 8, 2012 under Real Estate Law, West Virginia

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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 11 years ago | Contributor

Your friend was receiving governmental subsidized housing also known as Section 8 Housing. Under the contract that your friend had with the hosung authority, there was certain conduct expected of him as a condition of being tenant where he was.

The criminal charge most likely in and of itself was adequate basis for the housing authority to deem a breach of his contract in a material way and to terminate his lease.


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