# Housing and Community Development (GHS)

## Title 7. Assisted Housing Preservation Act

### Subtitle 2. Protected Actions

#### Section 7-210

(a) A political subdivision or a housing authority may exercise a right of first purchase under this subtitle and may develop, acquire, improve, own, operate, and manage a rental housing project acquired under the right of first purchase and do all things necessary or convenient to exercise these rights.

(b) In any rental housing project purchased under a right of first purchase under this subtitle and owned or managed by a housing authority authorized under Division II of this article, this subtitle supersedes:

  (1) Sec.Sec. 12-401, 12-402, and 12-405 of this article; and

  (2) all otherwise applicable restrictions on tenant income under Division II of this article.

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Md. Code Ann., Hous. & Cmty. Dev. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)