Tenants Lack Standing to Sue HUD For PHA's Failure to Adopt Adequate Administrative Hearing Procedures

摘要

Section 8 tenants do not have standing to sue HUD for a local housing authority's failure to adopt adequate administrative hearing procedures, ruled the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle. (Wilson v. Seattle Housing Authority, No. 2:09-CV-00226-MJP, 2011 WL 1213168 (W.D.Wash.), March 29, 2011) Markeletta Wilson and other Section 8 tenants brought an action in 2009 against the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA), claiming that SHA failed to adopt the minimum HUD requirements for informal hearing procedures for Section 8 participants. SHA moved to add HUD as an indispensable party, and plaintiffs amended their complaint to include HUD.