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Real Estate/Development

Oct. 23, 2009

Tenants Sue Over Low-Income Units

Group accuses the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development of allowing owners of a Los Angeles building to skirt low-income rent laws.

By Jason W. Armstrong

Daily Journal Staff Writer

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is fighting a lawsuit by tenants of a low-income housing complex in Venice who claim the organization has illegally exposed residents to possible rent increases by allowing the building owners to prepay their federally-insured mortgage.

The suit, filed this summer in federal court in Los Angeles, claims that by recently lett...

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