---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13616"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13616"
heading: "Prohibition of evictions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13616"
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"
---

# §13616. Prohibition of evictions


Any tenant who, except for reservation of a percentage of the units of a [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) pursuant to [section 13612 of this title](/usc/42/13612.md) or any preference for occupancy established pursuant to this subchapter, is lawfully residing in a dwelling unit in a covered section 8 housing [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2), may not be evicted or otherwise required to vacate such unit because of the reservation or preferences or because of any action taken by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Housing and Urban Development or the [owner](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) pursuant to this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 656, 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.