Section 202 owners are covered housing providers: they must adopt an emergency transfer plan, act when no safe unit is available, and report emergency transfer data to HUD each year

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Section 202 is a covered housing program under VAWA, and for the Supportive Housing for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities program the covered housing provider is the owner. The owner must develop and implement an emergency transfer plan meeting 24 CFR 5.2005(e), and has discretion to adopt new or modify existing admission preferences or transfer waitlist priorities to facilitate emergency transfers. Where a safe unit is not immediately available for a victim who qualifies for an emergency transfer, the owner must review its existing inventory of units and determine when the next vacant unit may be available, and must provide a listing of nearby HUD subsidized rental properties and contact information for the local HUD field office. Each year the owner must submit to HUD data on all emergency transfers requested under 24 CFR 5.2005(e), including data on the outcomes of those requests.

Confidence

high

Effective from

2016-12-16

Last reviewed

2026-08-29