HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 3.4.1 Introduction
Congress and HUD have provided public housing tenants with statutory and regulatory protections against overreaching by PHAs in leases.288 In 1997, HUD issued a sample lease for PHAs to use, cautioning them to review optional terms carefully.289 A sample lease is currently included as an appendix to the Public Housing Occupancy Guidebook.290