10.2 Subsidized housing

Domestic violence survivors who live in subsidized housing1  may require assistance with issues that includes:

• Challenging or avoiding an eviction or subsidy termination for alleged crimes by the abuser or victim’s temporary absence due to flight from abuser.
•  Requesting the housing authority remove the abuser from the lease.
•  Advocating for the portability of a voucher to another apartment or city.
•  Facilitating transfer to another apartment for safety reasons.
•  Advocating for rent decrease or minimum rent because of loss of family income.
•  Obtaining early lease termination.
•  Advocating for an admission preference due to domestic abuse.

• 1For more detailed discussion, see this manual’s chapter on federally subsidized housing.