---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13611"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13611"
heading: "Authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13611"
units:
  - "Chapter 135 — Residency and Service Requirements in Federally Assisted Housing"
  - "Subchapter II — Authority to Provide Preferences for Elderly Residents and Units for Disabled Residents in Certain Section 8 Assisted Housing"
---

# §13611. Authority


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an [owner](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) of a covered section 8 housing [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) (as such term is defined in [section 13619 of this title](/usc/42/13619.md)) designed primarily for occupancy by [elderly families](/usc/42/13641.md?p=1) may, in selecting tenants for units in the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) that become available for occupancy, give preference to [elderly families](/usc/42/13641.md?p=1) who have applied for occupancy in the housing, subject to the requirements of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 651, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3823.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle D of title VI of Pub. L. 102–550, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3823, which enacted this subchapter and amended section 1437f of this title.