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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§4624 Replacement housing for tenants and certain others

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 61— - UNIFORM RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AND REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION POLICIES FOR FEDERAL AND FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - UNIFORM RELOCATION ASSISTANCE › § 4624

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

An agency must pay someone who is forced to move from a home they actually lived in for at least 90 days before talks to buy it began, or before another event the lead agency sets, if that person can’t get the other relocation payment. The money is to help them rent a similar replacement home for up to 42 months, and the total can’t be more than $7,200, as adjusted by regulation. The agency can pay in installments, and when the person has low income the agency must consider that in figuring the payment. A person who is eligible can instead use the payment for a down payment and other buying costs to purchase a decent, safe, and sanitary replacement home. The agency may allow the person to get the full maximum payment for that purpose.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §4624

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this subchapter, the head of a displacing agency shall make a payment to or for any displaced person displaced from any dwelling not eligible to receive a payment under section 4623 of this title which dwelling was actually and lawfully occupied by such displaced person for not less than 90 days immediately prior to (1) the initiation of negotiations for acquisition of such dwelling, or (2) in any case in which displacement is not a direct result of acquisition, such other event as the head of the lead agency shall prescribe. Such payment shall consist of the amount necessary to enable such person to lease or rent for a period not to exceed 42 months, a comparable replacement dwelling, but not to exceed $7,200, as adjusted by regulation, in accordance with section 4633(d) of this title. At the discretion of the head of the displacing agency, a payment under this subsection may be made in periodic installments. Computation of a payment under this subsection to a low-income displaced person for a comparable replacement dwelling shall take into account such person’s income.
(b)Any person eligible for a payment under subsection (a) of this section may elect to apply such payment to a down payment on, and other incidental expenses pursuant to, the purchase of a decent, safe, and sanitary replacement dwelling. Any such person may, at the discretion of the head of the displacing agency, be eligible under this subsection for the maximum payment allowed under subsection (a).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2012—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 112–141, § 1521(c)(1), in second sentence, substituted “$7,200, as adjusted by regulation, in accordance with section 4633(d) of this title” for “$5,250”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 112–141, § 1521(c)(2), substituted period at end of second sentence for “, except that, in the case of a displaced homeowner who has owned and occupied the displacement dwelling for at least 90 days but not more than 180 days immediately prior to the initiation of negotiations for the acquisition of such dwelling, such payment shall not exceed the payment such person would otherwise have received under section 4623(a) of this title had the person owned and occupied the displacement dwelling 180 days immediately prior to the initiation of such negotiations.” 1987—Pub. L. 100–17 amended section generally, revising and restating as subsecs. (a) and (b) provisions formerly contained in introductory provisions and in pars. (1) and (2).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2012 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 112–141 effective 2 years after the date of enactment of Pub. L. 112–141, see section 1521(g) of Pub. L. 112–141, set out as a note under section 308 of Title 23, Highways.

Effective Date

of 1987 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 100–17 effective on

Effective Date

provided in

Regulations

promulgated under section 4633 of this title (as amended by section 412 of Pub. L. 100–17), but not later than 2 years after Apr. 2, 1987, see section 418 of Pub. L. 100–17, set out as a note under section 4601 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 4624

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73