Nan McKay HCV Specialist Certification
Complete Study Guide with Exam Prep 2025
HUD ✔️Allocates funds, develops regulations and procedures, contracts with PHAs to carry them
out, and monitors PHA performance & compliance.
Lease ✔️The contract between a tenant and a landlord
Includes:
a. The names of the owner and tenant
b. The address of the unit rented
c. The term of the lease (initial and renewal terms)
d. A specification of what utilities and appliances are
to be supplied by the owner
e. A specification of what utilities and appliances are
to be supplied by the tenant
Renews according to its terms
Governs the frequency of rent increases
Individuals must have legal capacity in their state in order to sign it
Must have an initial term of at least a year unless the prevailing market practice differs and the PHA
approves a shorter term.
Lists utility responsibilities
An unexecuted copy is turned in with the RFTA when the family finds a unit.
HUD Notices ✔️Which of the following has a shelf life (usually one year unless extended)?
,Administrative Plan ✔️HUD-required written plan that establishes local PHA policies for
administering the HCV program, provides daily guidance to PHA staff, must be adopted and
approved by the board, and must be submitted to HUD.
· Waiting list selection and procedures
· Rules for specific funding
· Definition of family
· Definition of continuously assisted family
· Standards for termination and denial of assistance
· Outreach to landlords in non-low income and non-minority concentrated areas
· Subsidy standards
· Definition of absence from unit
· Residency requirements
· Move restrictions
· Informal review and hearing processes
· Overpayment and repayment policies and procedures
· Guidelines for inspections, screening standards and requirements
· Voucher term, voucher extensions
· Family break up: protocol for who receives voucher
Approved by board of commissioners, submitted to HUD
Voucher/HUD-52646 ✔️Contract between family and PHA.
Initially issued for at least 60 calendar days.
Describes family obligations
Is issued at initial admission and for moves
Authorizes the family to search for a unit
Document that authorizes the family to search for an eligible unit which also specifies
, the size of that unit. Also lists the family obligations under the program.
Issuance does not obligate PHA to provide assistance to family
Tenant-based Subsidy ✔️Type of assistance where families choose their units.
HAP Contract/HUD-52641 ✔️Contract between the owner and the PHA.
Begins on the first day of lease. Ends on the same day as the lease.
PHA must approve a new tenancy and execute a new HAP contract is the family moved into a new
unit in the same complex.
PHA may pay the owner retroactively if the HAP contract is executed within 60 days of the beginning
of the lease term.
Terminates if the lease terminates.
Part A includes:
Initial lease term
Initial rent to owner
Initial HAP
@i Utilities/appliances provided by tenant & owner @i @i @i @i @i
@i Names of all persons who reside in unit
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@i May add verbiage the prohibits owners from charging excessive security deposits.
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Part B includes:
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Congress ✔️Passes authorizing HSG legislation and passes appropriation bills.
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President ✔️Signs legislation @i@i @i @i
Complete Study Guide with Exam Prep 2025
HUD ✔️Allocates funds, develops regulations and procedures, contracts with PHAs to carry them
out, and monitors PHA performance & compliance.
Lease ✔️The contract between a tenant and a landlord
Includes:
a. The names of the owner and tenant
b. The address of the unit rented
c. The term of the lease (initial and renewal terms)
d. A specification of what utilities and appliances are
to be supplied by the owner
e. A specification of what utilities and appliances are
to be supplied by the tenant
Renews according to its terms
Governs the frequency of rent increases
Individuals must have legal capacity in their state in order to sign it
Must have an initial term of at least a year unless the prevailing market practice differs and the PHA
approves a shorter term.
Lists utility responsibilities
An unexecuted copy is turned in with the RFTA when the family finds a unit.
HUD Notices ✔️Which of the following has a shelf life (usually one year unless extended)?
,Administrative Plan ✔️HUD-required written plan that establishes local PHA policies for
administering the HCV program, provides daily guidance to PHA staff, must be adopted and
approved by the board, and must be submitted to HUD.
· Waiting list selection and procedures
· Rules for specific funding
· Definition of family
· Definition of continuously assisted family
· Standards for termination and denial of assistance
· Outreach to landlords in non-low income and non-minority concentrated areas
· Subsidy standards
· Definition of absence from unit
· Residency requirements
· Move restrictions
· Informal review and hearing processes
· Overpayment and repayment policies and procedures
· Guidelines for inspections, screening standards and requirements
· Voucher term, voucher extensions
· Family break up: protocol for who receives voucher
Approved by board of commissioners, submitted to HUD
Voucher/HUD-52646 ✔️Contract between family and PHA.
Initially issued for at least 60 calendar days.
Describes family obligations
Is issued at initial admission and for moves
Authorizes the family to search for a unit
Document that authorizes the family to search for an eligible unit which also specifies
, the size of that unit. Also lists the family obligations under the program.
Issuance does not obligate PHA to provide assistance to family
Tenant-based Subsidy ✔️Type of assistance where families choose their units.
HAP Contract/HUD-52641 ✔️Contract between the owner and the PHA.
Begins on the first day of lease. Ends on the same day as the lease.
PHA must approve a new tenancy and execute a new HAP contract is the family moved into a new
unit in the same complex.
PHA may pay the owner retroactively if the HAP contract is executed within 60 days of the beginning
of the lease term.
Terminates if the lease terminates.
Part A includes:
Initial lease term
Initial rent to owner
Initial HAP
@i Utilities/appliances provided by tenant & owner @i @i @i @i @i
@i Names of all persons who reside in unit
@i @i @i @i @i @i @i
@i May add verbiage the prohibits owners from charging excessive security deposits.
@i @i @i @i @i @i @i @i @i @i
Part B includes:
@i @i
Congress ✔️Passes authorizing HSG legislation and passes appropriation bills.
@i@i @i @i @i @i @i @i @i @i
President ✔️Signs legislation @i@i @i @i
