Statute providing that a tenant receiving federal assistance may elect to remain in the housing under a different assistance program if the landlord opts out of the first assistance program creates a right to lease renewal absent good cause enforceable against any purchaser of a property currently rented to participants in the first assistance program.
Deference to agency's interpretation according to the power to persuade; remand to determine what constitutes good cause for nonrenewal.
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