---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13614"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13614"
heading: "General availability of units"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13614"
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"
---

# §13614. General availability of units


If an [owner](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) of a covered section 8 housing [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) in which [disabled families](/usc/42/13641.md?p=1) who are [near-elderly families](/usc/42/13641.md?p=1) are given a preference for occupancy pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of [section 13613 of this title](/usc/42/13613.md) determines (in accordance with regulations established by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2)) that there are an insufficient number of such families to fill all the units in the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for which the preference is applicable, the [owner](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) shall make such units generally available for occupancy by families who have applied, and are eligible, for occupancy in the housing, without regard to the preferences established pursuant to this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 654, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3824.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Covered section 8 housing, referred to in text, is defined in section 13619 of this title.