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Update your Tenant Selection Plan by March 31.

According to the HUD Handbook, multifamily housing owners are required to develop and make public written tenant selection policies and procedures. This Tenant Selection Plan (TSP) describes the procedures for processing and selecting applicants, including the establishment of preferences and priorities, occupancy standards, rejection standards, and notice requirements. It helps ensure that tenants are selected for occupancy in accordance with HUD requirements and established management policies.

Severe weather is in the forecast. Is your site prepared?

Increasingly frequent and severe weather events pose a growing threat to federally assisted housing and its residents. Extreme weather events can lead to flooding, power loss, property damage, transportation disruptions, interrupted access to critical resources, and even loss of life.

The proposed rule would formalize notice changes made during the pandemic.

Prepare for how these annual changes will affect income certifications.

The Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOTMA) Final Rule requires that certain amounts used to make income, asset, and eligibility determinations be adjusted by an inflationary factor on an annual basis. PHAs and Multifamily owners must use the HUD-published values when determining income, net family assets, and adjusted income for income examinations in accordance with the HOTMA Final Rule and other implementation guidance.

And affirms discretionary enforcement of new asset limits.

The penalties for violating a resident’s right to organize are stiff.

Residents have certain rights involving resident organizations. HUD has “Right to Organize” regulations that affirm and protect the rights of residents in privately owned HUD-assisted multifamily housing to organize their neighbors and collectively address issues in their buildings without management harassment and intimidation [24 CFR Part 245].

Do you factor the benefit into the tenant’s utility allowance or include it in annual income?

The notice marks the first comprehensive overhaul of inspection standards in 20 years.

HUD recently published the Final Notice for the National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) in the Federal Register. There are four main notices to HUD’s final package of NSPIRE materials. This notice follows the NSPIRE final rule published in May and combines with the recently released final scoring notice and the administrative procedures notice to make up HUD’s regulatory guidance for physical condition standards and inspection processes.

The final rule incorporates important changes based on public comments on the proposed rule.

HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs recently published updated guidance for owners of sites taking part in its Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program. The last update to the Section 8 Renewal Guidebook was in 2017. This recent update is centered around HUD’s standards for preparing, submitting, and reviewing Rent Comparability Studies (RCS) used to establish contract rents.