The PHA must verify community service 30 days before lease end and offer a written cure before non-renewal

ph.lease.community_service_administration_and_cure · v1.0.0

Each PHA must develop a local policy for administration of the community service and economic self-sufficiency requirements. The policy must describe how the PHA determines which family members are subject to or exempt from the requirement and the process for determining changes to that status. The PHA must give the family a written description of the service requirement and of the process for claiming exempt status and for PHA verification of it, must notify the family of its determination identifying which members are subject and which are exempt, and must notify the family that it will validate a sample of self-certifications. The PHA must review family compliance and must verify it annually at least 30 days before the end of the 12-month lease term, and must retain reasonable documentation of performance or exemption in the family file. Where qualifying activities are administered by an organisation other than the PHA, the family member must provide either a signed certification from that organisation or a signed self-certification containing a statement of the hours performed, the name, address and contact person of the provider or program, the dates, a description of the activity, and a certification that the statement is true; where the PHA accepts self-certifications it must validate a sample of them using third-party certification. Where the PHA determines a member has violated the requirement it must notify the tenant, briefly describing the noncompliance, stating that the PHA will not renew the lease at the end of the twelve month term unless the tenant and any other noncompliant resident enter into a written cure agreement and in fact cure, or the family provides written assurance that the noncompliant resident no longer resides in the unit, and stating that the tenant may request a grievance hearing under 24 CFR part 966 subpart B and may pursue any available judicial remedy. The PHA may not renew the lease unless the cure agreement is entered into and all other family members subject to the requirement are currently complying or no longer reside in the unit.

Confidence

high

Effective from

2000-10-01

Consequence model

agency finding with cure

Last reviewed

2026-08-30