11-966. Replacement housing for tenants
A. In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this article, a displacing agency
may make a payment to or for any person who is displaced from any dwelling and who is not
eligible to receive a payment under section 11-964 if the dwelling was actually and
lawfully occupied by the displaced person for not fewer than ninety days immediately
before the initiation of negotiations for acquisition of the dwelling, or if displacement
is not a direct result of acquisition ninety days immediately before such other event as
the lead agency prescribes. This payment shall be an amount necessary to enable the
person to lease or rent a comparable replacement dwelling, for a period of not more than
forty-two months, but shall not exceed five thousand two hundred fifty dollars, as
determined by the acquiring agency. At the discretion 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 the person's income.
B. A person who is eligible for a payment under subsection A of this section may
elect to apply the payment to a down payment on, and other incidental expenses pursuant
to, the purchase of a comparable replacement dwelling. The person, at the discretion of
the displacing agency, may be eligible under this subsection for the maximum payment
allowed under subsection A of this section, except that, in the case of a displaced
homeowner who has owned and occupied the displacement dwelling for at least ninety days
but not more than one hundred eighty days immediately before the initiation of
negotiations for the acquisition of the dwelling, the payment shall not exceed the
payment the person otherwise would have received under section 11-964, subsection A if
the person had owned and occupied the displacement dwelling one hundred eighty days
immediately before the initiation of the negotiations.
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