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• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  No extra fee or deposit may be charged as a condition of granting a reasonable accommodationRequirement excerpt: An owner may not require a person with a disability to pay an extra fee, surcharge or additional deposit as a condition of receiving a reasonable accommodation. This is what makes a pet fee, pet deposit or pet rent unlawful when the animal…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTC
  No review or implementation is required until the building reaches 90 percent occupancy for 90 consecutive days or the end of the first credit yearRequirement excerpt: The building owner is not required to review the utility allowances, or to implement new utility allowances, until the building has achieved 90 percent occupancy for a period of 90 consecutive days or the end of the first year of the credit…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTC
  Non-optional fees count toward gross rentRequirement excerpt: Charges that a tenant must pay as a condition of occupancy are part of gross rent for the Section 42 rent test, regardless of how the lease characterizes them. Fees for genuinely optional services are not.Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTC
  Noncompliance must be corrected within the agency's correction periodRequirement excerpt: The agency must give prompt written notice of noncompliance and specify the correction period in its monitoring procedure. The initial correction period may not exceed 90 days from the notice; this is a ceiling, not an automatic 90-day…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTC
  Nondiscrimination requirements apply across all programsRequirement excerpt: The owner must comply with the Fair Housing Act, Title VI, Section 504, the ADA and applicable state and local civil rights law in marketing, tenant selection, occupancy standards, and the provision of services and facilities.Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesFiled under: 811 PRA
  On a credit unit, the section 42 gross rent test is applied to the tenant portion, because the PRA payment is comparable rental assistanceRequirement excerpt: Where an 811 PRA assisted unit is also a low-income unit in a project claiming the low-income housing credit, gross rent for the section 42 rent restriction does not include the Project Rental Assistance Payment: it is comparable rental…Read conditions and sources →Shared-program reference: its applicability mentions LIHTC. Open the rule to check the remaining conditions.
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  On a federally assisted property the recipient must make and pay for structural changes needed as an accommodationRequirement excerpt: A recipient must modify its housing policies and practices so that they do not discriminate on the basis of disability, and may not impose policies -- such as prohibitions on assistive devices, auxiliary alarms or guides -- that limit the…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTC
  One tenant receiving RHS rental assistance puts every rent-restricted unit in the building on the RHS allowanceRequirement excerpt: If any tenant in a building receives RHS rental assistance payments, the applicable utility allowance for all rent-restricted units in that building is the applicable RHS utility allowance -- including units occupied by tenants who receive…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  Quid pro quo and hostile environment harassment are discriminatory housing practices, and a single incident can be enoughRequirement excerpt: Quid pro quo and hostile environment harassment because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin or handicap may violate sections 804, 805, 806 or 818 of the Fair Housing Act. Quid pro quo harassment is an unwelcome…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  Reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices or services must be made when necessary for equal opportunityRequirement excerpt: It is unlawful to refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices or services when such an accommodation may be necessary to afford a person with a disability an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling unit,…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  Reasonable modifications of the premises must be permitted at the requester's expenseRequirement excerpt: It is unlawful to refuse to permit, at the expense of the person with a disability, reasonable modifications of existing premises occupied or to be occupied by that person, where the modification may be necessary to afford full enjoyment of…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTC
  Records must be retained for six years, and twenty-one years for the first credit yearRequirement excerpt: The owner must retain records for each qualified low-income building for at least six years after the due date, with extensions, of the federal income tax return for that year. Records for the first year of the credit period must be…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  Retaliating against a person for complaining, testifying or assisting is itself unlawful, whether or not the underlying complaint succeedsRequirement excerpt: It is unlawful to coerce, intimidate, threaten or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment of, or on account of having exercised or enjoyed, or on account of having aided or encouraged another person in the exercise or…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  Substantial alteration of a 15-unit-or-larger project triggers the full new construction scopingRequirement excerpt: Where alterations are undertaken to a project of 15 or more units and the cost of the alterations is 75 percent or more of the replacement cost of the completed facility, the alteration is a substantial alteration and the new construction…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  The 55-or-older exemption also requires published policies demonstrating intent, and the phrase 'adult community' is evidence against itRequirement excerpt: To qualify as housing designed for persons 55 or older, a facility must publish and adhere to policies and procedures that demonstrate its intent to operate as such. The regulation names seven relevant factors: how the facility is described…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  The 55-or-older exemption requires routine age verification procedures, updated at least every two years, with seven named forms of reliable documentationRequirement excerpt: A facility claiming the 55-or-older exemption must be able to produce, in response to a complaint, verification of compliance with the 80 percent test through reliable surveys and affidavits. It must have developed procedures for routinely…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  The AFHMP must be reviewed every five years and updated when the market, the Consolidated Plan or the demographics changeRequirement excerpt: The owner must review its affirmative fair housing marketing plan every five years, and also whenever the local Community Development jurisdiction's Consolidated Plan is updated or there are significant changes in the demographics of the…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  The applicable fraction and eligible basis must be maintainedRequirement excerpt: A reduction in the applicable fraction or in eligible basis below the amounts on which the credit was computed reduces the allowable credit and, if it occurs during the compliance period, can trigger recapture.Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTC
  The basis of the utility allowance must be reviewed at least once during each CALENDAR year, taking building changes and rate changes into accountRequirement excerpt: A building owner must review, at least once during each calendar year, the basis on which utility allowances have been established, and must update the applicable allowance under 1.42-10(c)(1). The review must take into account any changes…Read conditions and sources →
• federalUnited StatesLIHTCReview limitations
  The correct income limit series and effective date must be usedRequirement excerpt: LIHTC and bond projects must use HUD's Multifamily Tax Subsidy Projects income limits, applied no later than 45 days after HUD's publication date, and must respect HERA special limits and the hold-harmless floor where the project qualifies.Read conditions and sources →