If your Section 8 voucher is being taken away, you have a right to a fair hearing. But you must ask for one by the deadline in your housing authority's rules.

This means that you have the right:

• To look at and copy any documents, including records and regulations that the Housing Authority will use in the hearing;
• To an impartial hearing officer or hearing panel. This means that the hearing panel cannot include anyone involved in the decision to take away a Section 8 voucher, or an employee of that person. If the hearing officer was involved in the termination decision, you should bring this up in writing at the hearing and ask for a new hearing officer;
• To have someone represent you at the hearing. This can be a lawyer or someone else;
• To make arguments in your favor (called "defenses");
• To bring up evidence, including letters, records, payment receipts, objects, or photographs;
• To bring witnesses; and
• To question any witnesses the Housing Authority presents.