How many people can legally reside in a 4 bedroom section 8 duplex in South Florida?
Because my wonderful ex-landlord stopped paying the mortgage on the private home I was renting, I had 12 days to find another place to live. I now live in a duplex not far away. most of these duplexes are section 8 eligible, and although I pay rent, my neighbors next door are section 8. I wound up moving into a duplex that has a family (?) of 11 living next door. There are 7 children, the two parents of these children, and two other random adults living in a 4/3. I can hear them 24/7 making noise, screaming at each other, opening and slamming doors, having friends hang out in the driveway in the evening. And now recently, they have been using our patio furniture in the small slab of concrete that we have as a backyard. We’ve spoken to them already about the noise, and the invasion of privacy; but nothing has changed. So herein lies my question, how many people are legally allowed to reside here? Is there anyone I can contact in Broward County regarding the amount of people living in this place?
You contact the housing authority. it is a county office. The 2 random adults are not allowed to be there, but the family with 7 kids is, otherwise they would not be on section 8.
“Because my wonderful ex-landlord stopped paying the mortgage on the private home I was renting, I had 12 days to find another place to live.”
Somebody snaked you good on that. Foreclosure is not grounds for eviction.
If you had a month to month rental agreement then you had 30 days to move minimum. I believe under a new Federal law you had 90 days to move. If you had a lease that had yet to expire then the place was yours until the lease expired.
You might have grounds for a wrongful eviction case if you can identify who evicted you.
There are no absolute guidelines about how many people can live in a dwelling because of discrimination concerns. If a mom and dad have 7 kids then they need to live somewhere. If the law said, “Two heartbeats maximum per bedroom” then this family would need a 5 bedroom home. How many homes like that accept Sec. 8.
But regardless of where any renter lives, only people on the lease can live in the dwelling. That’s standard practice everywhere Sec. 8 or not.