Opinion ID: 783493
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: topa

Text: 10 When TOPA entered the federal NHA Section 236 rent control program back in 1971, it obtained a 40-year, HUD-subsidized mortgage in return for charging below-market rents. TOPA prepaid its subsidized mortgage in 1998 and exited the federal program. The Housing Authority of Los Angeles then informed TOPA that it was subject to the 1990 LARSO amendments and, until vacancies occurred, it would have to keep its rents at the 1998 levels it had been charging under the federal program. This litigation followed. The issues presented in this appeal are whether federal law expressly preempts the 1990 LARSO amendments, and if not whether those amendments are preempted on conflict grounds.