HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2016-05 on April 7 that provides implementation guidance related to public housing and vouchers provisions in the March 8, 2016 final streamlining rule (see Memo, 3/7). The Notice presents a separate attachment for each of the provisions in the final rule that require additional guidance. Each attachment describes the change made by the final rule, the background for the change, and whether the change is mandatory or discretionary.
The provisions are:
- Verification of Social Security Numbers;
- Definition of extremely low income families;
- Exclusion of mandatory education fees from income;
- Streamlined annual reexamination for fixed sources of income;
- Earned income disregard;
- Family declaration of assets under $5,000;
- Utility reimbursements;
- Public housing rents for mixed families (families with members with citizenship or eligible immigration status as well as those without);
- Public housing grievance procedures;
- Biennial inspections and use of alternative inspection methods and inspection timeframes;
- Housing Quality Standards re-inspection fee;
- Exception payment standards for providing reasonable accommodations;
- Family income and composition: regular and interim examinations; and
- Utility payment schedules.
Notice PIH 2016-05 is at http://1.usa.gov/1qKunfw