1.7.1 Basic Principles

A public housing tenant may only be evicted for serious or repeated lease violations, being over income for the program, or “other good cause.”1  Good cause is always required to evict or to refuse to renew a lease except when a tenant refuses to comply with Community Service Work requirements.2  Criminal activity, drug-related activity, and the illegal use of drugs or abuse of alcohol may also be grounds for eviction.

• 124 C.F.R. § 966.4(l).
• 242 U.S.C. § 1437d(l)(1); 24 C.F.R. § 966.4(l)(2).