Irma Howard v. Samuel Pierce, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Grand Rapids Housing Commission

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• determining that provision of Brooke Amendment mandating a maximum rent creates an enforceable right
• agreeing with Perry in that the Act’s policy declaration (§ 1437) does not provide a private cause of action
• finding an implied cause of action for tenants to seek injunctive and declarative relief against HUD to enforce the Brooke Amendment, but declining to extend such an action to a public housing agency (the Grand Rapids Housing Commission)
• “While we find ample reasons to imply a cause of action against HUD, we can discern no justification for extending such a cause of action to a public housing agency such as [the Grand Rapids Housing Commission].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).