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RACINE COUNTY — If the partial government shutdown doesn’t end in the next 40 days, landlords will be put into a tight spot if they have tenants who receive housing vouchers.

Tenants who receive federal housing vouchers will still have to pay the usual 30 percent of their monthly income toward rent during the shutdown. But the Department of Housing and Urban Development is closed and has only approved funding through February, meaning that it won’t be paying rent to landlords unless something changes.

Thus, landlords may not receive the majority of their expected rent payments because of the shutdown, which began Dec. 22 and is now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. It’s illegal for landlords to evict Section 8 tenants so long as their 30 percent is paid, according to the Racine County Housing Authority, which is the local distributor for HUD housing voucher money — although there is a loophole for landlords who have tenants on month-to-month leases.

Brad Paul, the executive director of the Wisconsin Community Action Program Association, a statewide organization based in Madison, said that if the shutdown doesn’t end soon, practically everyone in the state will be negatively affected.