HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) has posted lists of health and safety items for each inspectable area to be inspected as part of REAC’s National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) Demonstration. The three inspectable areas are individual units, common areas inside buildings, and outside areas such as the site, building envelope, and building systems outside of a building or unit. There are two levels of health and safety severity:
- Severe health and safety risks, also known as exigent or life-threatening risks. These require immediate corrective action.
- Standard health and safety risks, also known as non-life-threatening risks. These require correction within 30 days.
According to a Federal Register Notice on August 21, over the course of two years HUD will inspect 4,500 properties whose public housing agencies and owners of private HUD-assisted multifamily properties are willing to voluntarily adopt HUD’s new NSPIRE model (see Memo, 8/26).
The NSPIRE health and safety risks postings are at: https://bit.ly/2mh8rMj
The NSPIRE homepage is at: https://bit.ly/2mh8rMj