Public Notice: Updated Asset Management Tenant Selection Plan, as approved 5/22/2024

Tenant Selection Plan – Effective: 5.31.2024 Download PDF

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Below is a summary of revisions:

Chapter Subject Comments
ASSET LIMITATIONS Restriction on the eligibility of a family to receive assistance if the family owns real property that is suitable for occupancy by the family as a residence or has assets in excess of $100,000, as adjusted annually.
2.3 Cure of non-compliance (HOTMA)
4.1 Defining Program Eligibility
5.5 Annual Recertification Policy
5.6 Interim Recertification Policy
5.9 Verifying Information
5.10 Real Property, Personal Property, Other Capital Investments
5.11 Exemptions to the Real Property Restriction in the Asset Limitation
5.12 Suitability of Real Property for Occupancy
6.12 Compliance at Admission
17.1 Termination of Assistance Special Considerations for Terminating Assistance or Evicting PBRA Families for Non-Compliance with the Asset Limitation
17.1 Special Considerations for Terminating Assistance or Evicting HUD Section 202 Families for Non-Compliance with the Asset Limitatio
17.1 Special Considerations for Terminating Assistance or Evicting PBV Families for Non-Compliance with the Asset Limitation
17.2 Termination of Tenancy by Owner
CALCULATING INCOME When calculating a household’s income, including asset income, at the time of admission to the program or during interim reexaminations, PHAs/MFH Owners must use anticipated income (current income) (i.e., the family’s estimated income for the upcoming 12-month period)
4.2.1 Income Eligibility
5.5 Annual Recertification Policy
5.7 Streamlined Income Determination
12.5 De Minimis Errors
DEDUCTIONS/EXPENSES Annual use of HUD published use of Consumer Price Index (CPI) for various deductions and declared expenses of applicants and participants
2.4 Information Regarding Disabilities
3.12 Consumer Price Index–Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI–W)
5.14 Unreimbursed Reasonable Attendant Care and Auxiliary Apparatus Expenses
5.14 Phased-In Relief
Phased-in Relief Timing Table
Phased-in Relief Outcomes According to Family’s Status in Program for Multifamily Housing Program
General Relief
5.15 Implementation of Hardship Exemption
Family Notification of Hardship Exemption
Extension of Hardship Exemption for Additional 90-Day Period(s)
Child-Care Expenses Deduction and Hardship Exemption to Continue Child-Care Expenses Deduction
Hardship Exemptions for Health and Medical Care Expenses and Reasonable Attendant Care and Auxiliary Apparatus Expenses
Policy for Determination of the Family’s inability to Pay Rent
Allowable Childcare Activities and Expenses
HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION New HUD Definition of family and Foster Adult and Foster Child.
4.2 Family Definition
4.7 Foster Adult and Foster Child
INCOME New HUD Definitions of Annual income and various categorized examples, self-certifications, assets, and imputed income.
4.3.2 Definition of Income
4.3.3 Earned Income
Appendix B New HUD Definitions
5.16 Exclusions from Net Family Assets
Self-Certification of Net Family Assets Equal to or Less Than $50,000 (as adjusted for inflation)
INTERIM REEXAM Timing, threshold, and events that qualify for required Interim reexamination
16.3 Interim Recertification Requirements
VERIFICATION Consent timing, mandated use of EIV, SSN Verification, Excluded Income and Zero Income
4.3.6 Excluded Income
4.4.1 Lack of Social Security Documentation
4.4.2 Authorization for Release of Information
5.1 EIV (Enterprising Income Verification)
Appendix C Mandatory And Discretionary Use Of EIV By HAMC
5.4 No Income Report
5.10 Verifying Applicant/Participant Information
12.4 Preferred Forms of Verification