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Owner responsibilities - ✅✅Selects and screens tenants
Enforces lease
State responsibilities - ✅✅Passes legislation establishing PHAS
PHA administrative plan - ✅✅establishes local policies for administering the
HCV program
HUD vs ADA definition of disability - ✅✅HUD definition is more specific,
used for eligibility determination and allowances/deductions
ADA definition - broader, used for reasonable accommodations
Live in aide - ✅✅would not be living in the unit except to provide necessary
supportive services
Occupancy cycle - ✅✅Intake - preapplication, waiting list, needs estimation,
final eligibility determination
Initial lease-up - briefing & voucher issuance, RFTA and lease approval
submitted, HQS inspection, approval & execution, moves
Annual Activities - recerts, HQS (biennially), rent adjustment
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Moves
Interim activities - interem recerts, HQS compliance
Terminations - HCV violation, lease termination, HAP contract termination
Certification of preference + waitlist addition - ✅✅At time of initial app,
need only certify preference eligibility (not verify)
Place on waitlist according to preference claimed
eligibility verification requirement: X number of days - ✅✅60 day window to
obtain verification docs
elderly family: - ✅✅head or spouse is 62+
disabled family: - ✅✅head/spouse is disabled
two+ people in hh are disabled
one+ people w/ one+ live-in aides
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exemptions from SSN disclosure - ✅✅Noncontending family member
(someone not declaring citizenship/eligible non-citizen status)
Noncontending family member - ✅✅someone not declaring
citizenship/eligible non-citizen status
exempt from SSN disclosure
Mixed family - ✅✅Citizens + eligible noncitizens/non-eligible non-citizens
To declare citizenship/national status: - ✅✅complete signed declaration
(section 214 status)
Section 214 - ✅✅to declare citizenship/national status
When is income eligibility not tested? - ✅✅After lease-up/admission
Student rule for eligibility - ✅✅Cannot give assistance to someone who:
• Is enrolled as a student at an
institution of higher education;
• Is under the age of 24;
• Is not a veteran of the United
States military;
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• Is unmarried;
• Does not have a dependent
child;
• Is not a person with disabilities,
• Student and parents are both income eligible (80% AMI) or student is
independent/absent from their parents
Before beginning denial on basis of criminal/sex-offender status, PHA must -
✅✅Notify household and provide an opportunity to dispute
PHA must deny if applicant fails to: - ✅✅sign consent forms
not disclose SSN
no citizens/eligible nationals
PHA may deny for - ✅✅debts owed
Family obligations are listed on - ✅✅the voucher
PHA is not obligated to approve tenancy when: - ✅✅voucher is issued
Oral briefing must include: - ✅✅Description of how program works