Your local Housing Authority can extend the 'rules' (as in make them more stringent) but not modify the HAP agreement.

MODIFYING A REPORTHere we need to do some modification.Click on the Filters Tabs Choose Customer TypeChoose Tenant (remember you just created that) from the drop down list.Click okAnd a report will generate a Profit and Loss Report per tenant.  

My lease was a simple word document that I would have to modify and print out every time for the particular unit/property. 

Feel free to borrow ideas from them or modify them to meet your needs.The applicants you describe would not meet our minimum criteria to rent, so we would deny them and send them a denial letter, which in our state is called the "Adverse Action Notice."  

I discovered it when I went over there for routine maintenance, and told them that it was:A) Against their lease to modify the property without my written consent.B) Illegal to put a bedroom in the basement (insufficient methods of egress).C) A bad idea, because the basement gets damp with heavy rains.D) Improperly wired.I read them the part in the lease that they had verbally agreed to and signed, told them not to try that again, and they agreed to undo their electric work and remove the furniture from the basement. 

And at times the BP editor has mangled using site modifier on google search, so I also avoided that by not just explicitly giving the query terms. 

Feel free to modify it to match your rental agreement terms and landlord tenant law for your jurisdiction."

Even with obese people now being classified as disabled, wouldn't that mean you could still require them to "modify" your unit to, for instance, a bariatric toilet, and then modify it back to normal, or be able to hold them responsible for any damage they do to the regular toilet or plumbing if caused by their weight?  

Commercial customers enjoy the benefit of depreciating 85% of the gross system cost over a 5 year period called MACRS (Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System).

If you read further down, there are more clarifying statements about a landlord dealing with a Section 8 applicant.The way I read it . . . a landlord will not be forced to modify their criteria or lower the rent to accommodate Section 8.