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GENERAL AUTHORITIES AND INFORMATION

Public Housing Occupancy Guide Book (June 2003)

HUD issued the final Public Housing Occupancy Guide. The Guide is divided into seven parts: (1) Civil Rights; (2) Admissions; (3) Public Housing Income and Program Rents; (4) Continued Occupancy; (5) Public Housing Leases; (6) Grievance Procedures; and (7) Domestic Violence. The guidebook also contains appendices of sample policies and forms. The guidebook is available from hudclips.org. The guidebook replaces HUD Handbook 7465.1 REV 2 Public Housing Occupancy Handbook: Admission. Comments to the Guide in its proposed form made by HJN members are also available on this site.

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Intro letter

Guidebook

Appendices 1-2

Appendix 3

Appendices 4-7

Appendix 8

CONVENTIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING AND LEASED PUBLIC HOUSING Description: Housing for low-income people, rented to very low-income persons and households by a local housing authority and subsidized by HUD. See generally, HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights and 1998 Supplement, Sec. 1.3.1 (Order Form).  PHA Fiscal Years: This is an extract from a recently released HUD data base listing the fiscal year beginning dates for every public housing authority.

HUD Administration

List of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) Central Office Staff at www.hud.gov/pih/dirpih.html

List of PIH Field Offices and Personnel at www.hud.gov/pih/aboutpih/fieldoffices/fldoffcs.html


Statute:

United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1437 etseq. As amended by the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, Title V of Pub. L. No. 105-276, 112 Stat. 2461, 2518 (October 21, 1998). The 1998 Housing Act can be downloaded on the world wide web by searching for "Public Law 105-276" at www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara005.html.  Regulations -- 24 C.F.R.: § 5.100 General Definitions
§ 5.110 Waiver authority 
§ 5.210-18 Disclosure of Social Security Numbers
§ 5.230-38 Procedures for Securing Wage and Income information
§ 5.300 Pets (Part 5, subpart C)
§  5.403 Definitions for Public Housing
§ 5.405-30 Federal Preference Regulations, to be amended because of statutory repeal
§ 5.500-28 Restrictions on Non-citizens’ Eligibility
§  5.601-17 Income limits, definition of income, recertification and rents
§  5. 701-05 Physical Condition Standards and Inspection Requirements
§ 5. 801 Uniform Financial Reporting Standards
§ 761 Public Housing Drug Elimination Program
§ 901 Public Housing Assessment System 
§ 903 Public Housing Agency Plans
§  904 Homeownership -- Turnkey III (low rent housing homeownership opportunity)
§  906 Section 5(h) homeownership
§  941 Public Housing Development, including Public/Private Partnerships
§  945 Designated Housing For The Elderly
§ 950 Indian Housing
§  960 Admissions, Recertification, Elderly Preferences & Police Officers 
§ 963 Contracting with Resident Businesses
§ 964 Tenant participation and tenant opportunity program
§  965 Utility policies and lead-based paint
§  966 Leases and grievance procedures
§  968 Modernization
§  969 Continued operation after completion of debt service
§  970 Demolition, Disposition and Closeout
§  971 Assessment of the Reasonable Revitalization Potential of Certain Public Housing
§  984 Family Self-Sufficiency
§  990 Operating subsidies
Handbooks*: 7417.1 Public Housing Development Handbook REV-1 (10/10/80 with changes through CHG-12, 12/21/92)  7430.1 Leased Housing Handbook (11/28/69 through CHG-9, 5/17/82)(canceled as requirement, but retained as guidance to understanding and interpreting regulations)

7460.2 Public Housing Manager Certification Program Handbook (11/6/80 through CHG-1, 3/26/85)

7460.4 Security Planning for HUD-Assisted Multifamily Housing (4/1/74)

7460.5 Public Housing Management Assessment Program (PHMAP) (3/92 through CHG-1 November 22, 1993)

7460.5G On-Site Confirmatory Review Guidebook (PHMAP Related) 

7460.7 Field Office Monitoring of PHAs REV-2 (2/28/90 with changes through 11/18/94)

7465.1 Public Housing Occupancy Handbook: Admission REV-2 (8/87 through CHG-2, 7/12/91) 

7465.2 Public Housing Occupancy Audit Handbook REV-2 (6/9/88) 

7465.3 The Public and Indian Housing Occupancy Reporting Handbook (12/90)

7475.1 Financial Management Handbook REV-1 (12/18/87 through CHG-1, 3/9/89)(canceled as requirement, but retained as guidance to understanding and interpreting regulations) 

7476.1 Audits of Public Housing Agencies and Indian Housing Authorities by Independent Auditors REV-1, 10/89 through CHG-2 dated 9/94)(cancelled as a requirement, but retained as guidance to interpreting the regulations)

7485.1 Public Housing Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program REV-4 (12/20/89)

7485.2 Public Housing Modernization Standards Rev-1 (February 4, 1985, with changes through CHG-2, 3/29/93)

7490.1 Resident Initiatives Grants Management (April 7, 1993)

    HUD Handbooks are available at: http://www.hudclips.org/sub_nonhud/cgi/hudclips.cgi
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