Housing Authorities Law

Virginia · 36 · §§ 36-1 to 36-9.1 · 83 sections

Overview

This act authorizes local and regional public bodies to create housing authorities and sets out how they come into being and operate — the resolution of necessity and supporting factual findings required to activate one, including determinations about unsafe or insanitary conditions and the housing needs of persons of low income, together with the appointment, terms, officers, compensation, and conflict-of-interest duties of its commissioners and its treatment of bonds and real property, which is exempted from execution, judgment liens, and similar process. It also governs the landlord–tenant side of public housing, specifying the conditions under which a tenant may be required to vacate and a termination procedure built on written notice with prescribed contents and service, competing affidavits from the tenant and the housing authority or landlord, and a determination by a local judicial officer. A tenant may obtain judicial review and appeal, may retain the premises pending review on stated conditions, and may be returned to public housing, and an action for damages remains available alongside these remedies.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 6 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 272 Va. 2 - Norfolk Housing v. C and C Real Estate

Sections covered

Va. Code Ann. § 36-1Title of chapter
Va. Code Ann. § 36-10Validation of establishment and organization of housing authorities and their contracts, undertakings, etc
Va. Code Ann. § 36-11Appointment and tenure of commissioners; compensation
Va. Code Ann. § 36-11.1Compensation of commissioners in certain counties
Va. Code Ann. § 36-11.1:1Compensation of commissioners generally
Va. Code Ann. § 36-11.2Appointment of commissioners in certain cities
Va. Code Ann. § 36-12Powers vested in commissioners; quorum
Va. Code Ann. § 36-13Selection of chairman and other officers, agents and employees
Va. Code Ann. § 36-14Legal counsel
Va. Code Ann. § 36-15Delegation of authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-16Repealed
Va. Code Ann. § 36-17Removal of commissioners
Va. Code Ann. § 36-18Meetings and residence of commissioners
Va. Code Ann. § 36-19Enumeration of powers
Va. Code Ann. § 36-19.1Special provisions; City of Roanoke
Va. Code Ann. § 36-19.2Powers limited by necessity for authority from or approval by governing body; public hearing on proposed budget
Va. Code Ann. § 36-19.3Repealed
Va. Code Ann. § 36-19.4Referendum prior to making cooperation agreements for public housing projects in the City of Portsmouth
Va. Code Ann. § 36-19.5Additional powers
Va. Code Ann. § 36-2Findings and declaration of necessity
Va. Code Ann. § 36-20Housing research and studies
Va. Code Ann. § 36-21Housing projects not to be operated for profit
Va. Code Ann. § 36-22Rentals and tenant selection
Va. Code Ann. § 36-22.1Conveyance of streets; no trespass policy
Va. Code Ann. § 36-23Housing authority operations in other municipalities
Va. Code Ann. § 36-24Cooperation of authorities
Va. Code Ann. § 36-25Payments by housing authorities to other bodies
Va. Code Ann. § 36-26Aid from federal government
Va. Code Ann. § 36-27Eminent domain
Va. Code Ann. § 36-27.01Plan for alternative housing of persons displaced by condemnation, conversion, etc
Va. Code Ann. § 36-27.1Damages to leasehold interests in the City of Waynesboro
Va. Code Ann. § 36-27.2Limitations on certain housing authorities; exception
Va. Code Ann. § 36-28Planning, zoning and building laws
Va. Code Ann. § 36-29Power to issue bonds; liability in general
Va. Code Ann. § 36-3Definitions
Va. Code Ann. § 36-30Form and sale of bonds; presumption of validity
Va. Code Ann. § 36-31Provisions of bonds, trust indentures and mortgages
Va. Code Ann. § 36-32Remedies of obligee of authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-33Additional remedies conferrable by authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-34Housing bonds to be legal investments, legal security and negotiable
Va. Code Ann. § 36-35Contracts and covenants with federal government, etc.; agreements to sell
Va. Code Ann. § 36-36Powers of county and regional housing authorities
Va. Code Ann. § 36-37Same subject; tenant selection limitations; homestead exemption
Va. Code Ann. § 36-38Housing applications by farmers
Va. Code Ann. § 36-39Repealed
Va. Code Ann. § 36-4Creation of redevelopment and housing authorities
Va. Code Ann. § 36-40Creation of regional housing authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-41Increasing area of operation of regional housing authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-4.1Holding of referendum; effect
Va. Code Ann. § 36-42Decreasing area of operation of regional housing authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-43Housing authority for county excluded from regional authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-44Public hearing to create regional authority or change its area of operation, and findings
Va. Code Ann. § 36-45Commissioners of regional housing authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-46Powers of regional housing authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-47Consolidated housing authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-47.1Compensation of commissioners
Va. Code Ann. § 36-47.2Consolidation of two or more housing authorities within same city
Va. Code Ann. § 36-48Creation of Redevelopment Areas
Va. Code Ann. § 36-48.1Creation of Conservation Areas
Va. Code Ann. § 36-49Adoption of Redevelopment Plans
Va. Code Ann. § 36-49.1Adoption of Conservation Plans2 cites
Va. Code Ann. § 36-49.1:1Spot blight abatement authorized; procedure
Va. Code Ann. § 36-49.2Power to purchase or lease land for certain other redevelopment projects
Va. Code Ann. § 36-5Reports
Va. Code Ann. § 36-50Extension of general powers for actions taken pursuant to a redevelopment plan
Va. Code Ann. § 36-50.1Extension of general powers for actions taken pursuant to a conservation plan2 cites
Va. Code Ann. § 36-51Redevelopment plans
Va. Code Ann. § 36-51.1Requirements for "conservation plan" generally1 cite
Va. Code Ann. § 36-52Cooperation by localities
Va. Code Ann. § 36-52.1Authority for localities to create conservation or redevelopment areas
Va. Code Ann. § 36-52.2Acquisition of property prior to adoption of development or conservation plan in certain cities
Va. Code Ann. § 36-52.3Adoption and designation of "rehabilitation area."1 cite
Va. Code Ann. § 36-53Making property available for conservation or redevelopment
Va. Code Ann. § 36-54Aid from federal government
Va. Code Ann. § 36-55Bonds to be legal investments and security
Va. Code Ann. § 36-55.1In certain counties
Va. Code Ann. § 36-6Cooperation in undertaking housing projects
Va. Code Ann. § 36-7Loans and donations to housing authority
Va. Code Ann. § 36-7.1Liquidation of housing project
Va. Code Ann. § 36-7.2Notice of intent to demolish, liquidate, or otherwise dispose of housing projects
Va. Code Ann. § 36-8Supplemental nature of chapter
Va. Code Ann. § 36-9Chapter controlling
Va. Code Ann. § 36-9.1Exemptions from applicability of this chapter; conflicts in provisions of law

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