An amendment numbered 5 printed in House Report 110-509 to safeguard the rights of tenants of HOPE VI housing from eviction based on the criminal activities of others if the tenant is elderly or disabled, and did not or should not have known of the activity, or if they were the victims of a criminal act.

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   Inserted: (3) Public housing and section 8 eviction provisions.--In the case of any public housing or housing assisted under section 8, for which assistance is provided at any time pursuant to a grant for a revitalization plan under this section, the provisions of paragraph (6) of section 6(l) and clause (iii) of section 8(d)(1)(B), respectively, shall apply, except that any criminal or drug-related criminal activity referred to in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) of such paragraph or in the matter preceding subclause (I) of such clause, respectively, engaged in by a member of a tenant's household or any guest or other person under the tenant's control, shall not be cause for termination of tenancy of the tenant if--

   Inserted: (A) the tenant is an elderly person (as such term is defined in section 202(k) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q)) or a person with disabilities (as such term is defined in section 811(k) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(k)), and

   Inserted: (B) the tenant did not know and should not have known of the activity or the tenant or member of household was the victim of the criminal activity;

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