HUD’s Tenant Protection Voucher (TPV) program is for Public Housing Agency (PHA) residents who are in danger of being displaced from a low-income apartment complex that had HUD assisted rents or was owned by the PHA. The program has been around in one form or another since 1996.The displacement could be caused by a variety of reasons, such as:HUD Public Housing is being torn down, sold, or converted to Housing Choice Vouchers.Privately owned housing with a Project Based Section 8 contract where HUD has decided to terminate the contract or chose to not renew, because the owners have consistently not met Housing Quality Standards.Privately owned property with a HUD subsidized mortgage is facing foreclosure.HUD terminates the contract.A Rental Assistance Program expires.A Government assisted mortgage on the property has been paid off before the due date.Section 202 Direct Loans have been paid off early.There are two types of Tenant Protection Vouchers:Enhanced VouchersEnhanced Vouchers which are given to families to enable them to stay in their apartments even if the rents are raised above Fair Market Rents, and Housing Choice Vouchers for families that must move or choose to move.With Enhanced Vouchers:The family has the right to stay in the apartment with enhanced voucher assistance, even if the rent is higher.The family can stay as long as the apartment is used as a rental unit.The lease cannot be terminated unless the family commits serious violations of the lease or for another good cause.The local PHA may determine the current apartment is too big or too small for the family and require the family to move to a smaller or larger apartment within the apartment complex, as soon as one comes available.Housing Choice VouchersIf the family chooses to move, the local PHA will issue the family a Housing Choice Voucher, which goes by the same rules as a normally issued Housing Choice Voucher.This type of Housing Choice Voucher can be used anywhere in the United States or the territories, if the family meets the local PHA’s qualifications.The family may also request a voucher to move, prior to the end of any lease term.With specially issued Housing Choice Vouchers:The family must move because their apartment is being demolished.The family’s apartment is mandatorily being converted to the Housing Choice Voucher program.