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- federalUnited States202 PRACA 202 owner gets 50 percent of per-unit operating cost for the first 60 days of a vacancy, but only on four conditions and never so as to be paid twiceRequirement excerpt: Vacancy payments under a PRAC are conditional, and 24 CFR 891.445(a) says flatly that they will not be made unless the conditions are fulfilled. After rent-up, an owner whose eligible household vacates is entitled to 50 percent of the…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited States811 PRACA 811 owner gets 50 percent of per-unit operating cost for the first 60 days of a vacancy, but only on four conditions and never so as to be paid twiceRequirement excerpt: Vacancy payments under a PRAC are conditional, and 24 CFR 891.445(a) says flatly that they will not be made unless the conditions are fulfilled. After rent-up, an owner whose eligible household vacates is entitled to 50 percent of the…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesRD 514/516Off-farm labor housing is priced under the Plan II rent and tenant contribution rules of subpart ERequirement excerpt: Off-farm labor housing is subject to the tenant contribution and rental unit rent requirements for Plan II housing established under 7 CFR part 3560 subpart E - the same note rent, basic rent and thirty-percent-of-adjusted-income structure…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesHOMEHOME income targeting applies across the participating jurisdiction’s fiscal-year rental assistanceRequirement excerpt: The participating jurisdiction must direct HOME funds made available in a fiscal year so that at least 90% of assisted rental families or assisted rental units meet the HUD-adjusted 60%-of-area-median income ceiling. Eligibility is measured…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesPBRATermination of assistance is not termination of tenancy: the tenant keeps the unit and pays market rent, full contract rent, or 110 percent of the BMIR rentRequirement excerpt: Termination of assistance and termination of tenancy are separate actions with separate grounds and separate consequences, and conflating them is the commonest error in this area. Termination of assistance occurs when a tenant is no longer…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesBMIRReview limitationsSection 221(d)(3) BMIR verification stays on Handbook 4350.3's four-level hierarchy, because Notice H 2023-10's Section 4 program list does not reach BMIRRequirement excerpt: For a Section 221(d)(3) BMIR unit the owner must verify all income, assets, expenses, deductions, family characteristics and circumstances that affect family eligibility or level of assistance, using HUD Handbook 4350.3 REV-1 Chg-4's four…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesHTFReview limitationsAn HTF tenant's initial annual income must come from two months of source documents; a self-certification or a program administrator's statement is available only afterwardsRequirement excerpt: For a family who is a tenant in HTF-assisted housing, the grantee must determine annual income initially by examining at least two months of source documents evidencing annual income. Only for subsequent income determinations during the…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited States811 PRARelated — matches some termsIf occupied assisted units fall below the contract count, the next available appropriate unit must be designated as an assisted unitRequirement excerpt: The owner must lease assisted units only to eligible families, must tell the grantee or its designee of a vacancy, and must hold the unit open for a reasonable period. If no eligible tenant is identified within a reasonable period as…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesPBRARelated — matches some termsReview limitationsA change in family size lets the owner require a move to an appropriate-size unit, but never permits eviction for refusing, nor a market rent where no such unit is availableRequirement excerpt: After a family moves in, the unit may become overcrowded or underutilised because family size changed. In rental properties the owner MAY require the family to move to a unit of appropriate size. If a unit of appropriate size is not…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesPBRARelated — matches some termsReview limitationsAt least 40 percent of the assisted units that become available for occupancy in a fiscal year must be leased only to extremely low income familiesRequirement excerpt: For each project assisted under a Section 8 project-based assistance contract, of the dwelling units assisted under that contract that become available for occupancy in any fiscal year, not less than 40 percent must be available for leasing…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesPBRARelated — matches some termsReview limitationsAdmitting an over-income applicant needs prior written HUD approval, except in 236, Rent Supplement and RAP units under the 10 percent market-rent threshold with no eligible applicant availableRequirement excerpt: Where an owner is temporarily unable to lease all units to income-eligible families, the owner may admit applicants whose incomes exceed the applicable programme income limits only with prior written HUD approval, requested through the…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesBond / 142(d)Related — matches some termsEvery unit must stay rented or available for rental for the longer of the remaining bond term or the qualified project periodRequirement excerpt: Once available for occupancy, EACH unit in the project - not only the units counted toward the set-aside - must be rented or available for rental on a continuous basis during the longer of the remaining term of the obligation or the…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited States202 PRACRelated — matches some termsAll units in Section 202 assisted housing must be available for occupancy by very low-income elderly persons for not less than 40 yearsRequirement excerpt: All units in housing assisted under Section 202 must be made available for occupancy by very low-income elderly persons for not less than 40 years. A capital advance bears no interest and its repayment is not required so long as the housing…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesPBRARelated — matches some termsReview limitationsNot more than 15 percent of units first available on or after 1 October 1981 may be leased to low income families who are not very low income, absent prior HUD approvalRequirement excerpt: Not more than 15 percent of the Section 8 project-based dwelling units that initially became available for occupancy under a Housing Assistance Payments contract on or after 1 October 1981 may be leased to low income families other than…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited States202 PRACRelated — matches some termsSection 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 yearRequirement excerpt: 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…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited States811 PRACRelated — matches some termsSection 811 owners are covered housing providers: emergency transfer plan, alternatives when no safe unit is available, and an annual emergency transfer data submission to HUDRequirement excerpt: Section 811 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…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesLIHTCRelated — matches some termsUnits must be available for use by the general publicRequirement excerpt: A residential unit is not a low-income unit unless it is available for use by the general public, meaning it is rented in a manner consistent with housing policy governing nondiscrimination and is not provided preferentially to members of a…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesMod RehabRelated — matches some termsAll assisted units must be leased to eligible families, and sustained failure lets the PHA reduce the number of units under contractRequirement excerpt: Owners must lease all assisted units under the contract to eligible families; leasing vacant assisted units to ineligible tenants is a violation of the contract and grounds for all available legal remedies, including suspension or debarment…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesPBVRelated — matches some termsPBV assistance in a project is capped at the greater of 25 percent of the units or 25 unitsRequirement excerpt: A PHA may not select a proposal, or enter into an Agreement or HAP contract, if the number of assisted units in a project is more than the greater of 25 percent of the dwelling units in the project or 25 units. The cap rises to the greater…Read conditions and sources →
- federalUnited StatesPBRARelated — matches some termsOn a unit transfer both the rent change and the assistance payment change take effect the day the tenant actually occupies the new unitRequirement excerpt: In the case of a unit transfer, both the change in rent and the change in the assistance payment are effective on the day the tenant actually occupies the new unit -- not on the date of the transfer offer, not on the date the new lease is…Read conditions and sources →