---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13617"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13617"
heading: "Treatment of covered section 8 housing not subject to elderly preference"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13617"
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"
---

# §13617. Treatment of covered section 8 housing not subject to elderly preference


If an [owner](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) of any covered section 8 housing [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) designed primarily for occupancy by [elderly families](/usc/42/13641.md?p=1) does not give preference in occupancy to [elderly families](/usc/42/13641.md?p=1) as authorized in this subchapter, then [elderly families](/usc/42/13641.md?p=1) (as such term was defined in [section 1437a of this title](/usc/42/1437a.md) before October 28, 1992) shall be eligible for occupancy in such housing to the same extent that such families were eligible before October 28, 1992.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 657, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3825.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

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