New City Manager

Acclaro -The city of New York, with a population of 8,500,000, only has 33,000 section 8 vouchrs. That equates to less than .38 of 1%, of its total population, and less than .1% of its entire housing stock. While an egregious error made by Middletown to absorb such enormous vouchers, although they could have used NSP funds, and other federal housing grants, to build consolidated and very decent public housing, and increased the voucher number even further, which would have benefited Cincinnati State and those in section 8, by obtaining a trade or education that would stabilized their financial well being, there is nothing in federal law that states a city cannot reduce its stock after the period of contraction has expired, nor is it a form of discrimination for individuals to remain in a city in the event the vouchers are reduced.

Acclaro
While your statement is true you also need to remember that HUD uses many programs under different names

FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAMS IN NEW YORK CITY 

    New York City has long been a pioneer in the area of housing policy. New York City built the nation’s first public housing development, First Houses, in 1935, two years before Congress passed the Wagner-Steagall Housing Act of 1937. The 1937 Housing Act, which established the Public Housing Program, also adopted the mechanism New York State had created to get the housing built—the local public housing authority. The close relationship between New York City and Washington, D.C. did not end there. Later programs such as the Section 221(d)(3) and 236 Below Market Interest Rate Programs were inspired by New York’s Mitchell-Lama Middle Income Housing and the first secretary of HUD, Robert Weaver, was a former New York State housing official.

    No city in the country has as much federally subsidized housing as New York City [Ellen and O’Flaherty 2004]. Close to 300,000 housing units in the city receive some form of federal assistance.

    The number of tenants living in public housing in New York, alone, outnumbers the entire populations of cities such as St. Paul, Minnesota and Buffalo, New York.

    During the period of our study (1977 to 2002), New York City’s housing policy was in transition. While federal programs still dominated the city’s subsidized housing production landscape in the first decade of this period, the number of units built each year was only a fraction of the units produced in the preceding two decades. By the mid-1980s, two of the biggest federal programs-- the Public Housing Program and the Section 8 New and Substantial Rehabilitation Program-- were winding down although new construction of units already in the pipeline continued.

    In place of these programs, the City began its own capital program, the Ten Year Plan for Housing, which would fund the construction or rehabilitation of over 200,000 units of housing by 2002.

    Although the effort enjoyed an unprecedented level of municipal support, not all of the construction under the city’s Ten Year Plan for Housing [Schill et al 2002] was financed by city funds alone. Beginning in the early 1990s, much of this housing was also supported by the LIHTC. 

    It is my understand that ALL 1662 voucher will be transferred to Warren and Butler counties depending on the tenants current location.
    Middletown will not be the administrator of any vouchers NONE and therefore will receive ZERO dollars.
    HUD is a tenant based program and will protect these tenants rights at all levels.
HUD will never allow a reduction or a forced removal of any Section 8 tenants from the city limits of Middletown. NEVER!.  
   
     

I don't understand on what basis a landlord could sue the city if the number of vouchers are reduced.
The city doesn't have contracts with individual landlords.
Are you talking about the recent lawsuit against the City of Middletown?
If so I do not believe that is the cause for this legal action.