Purpose of Training To refresh your understanding of the PHAS. Deadlines for closeout forms are extended by six months. The Saint Paul PHA takes pride in the condition of its properties, and we work hard to ensure that the PHAS Physical Inspection score (PASS) will fairly reflect that. This can be done by placing information on the PHA’s website, leaving voice-mail messages for residents and additional follow-up communication. Through this waiver PHAs would be allowed to permit over-income families to remain in their units and pay the same rental amount until that PHA conducts the family’s next annual income recertification.This waiver would allow HUD more than 60 days to review Designated Housing Plans through July 31, 2020.PHAs are not required to use the waiver for the full period of availability and my go back to the standard program requirements at any time.
A PHA may add other requirements.The Department is waiving the regulation that requires a PBV unit inspection before the unit is leased to a new family. A PHA may now execute a HAP contract after 60 days after the beginning of a lease and make HAP back to the beginning of the lease term. Some of the waivers have alternative requirements. No programmatic expenditure end date shall be extended beyond one month prior to the closure of the relevant appropriation account.The Department is waiving the requirement that a PHA’s administrative plan must be formally adopted by a PHA’s board.HUD is waiving and suspending the CSSR requirement. Sample agendas for each day are provided for your reference. HA Profiles - HA profiles provides more detailed, up-to-date HA information, in addition to address and contact information for individual Public Housing Agencies. As an alternative requirement, the PHA, following a written notice to the owner and family, may extend the period of time following the last payment to the owner that triggers the automatic termination.The Department is waiving the requirement that the PHA must give an oral briefing to families in the HCV and PBV programs. Training guides and PowerPoint slides for each day are included below.Lead the Way is a free, online self-paced training to help Public Housing Agency (PHA) boards and staff fulfill their responsibilities in providing effective governance and oversight.These documents outline the need-to-know information for each section. Each webinar will start with a one-hour presentation from HUD program experts; the discussion topics will vary each month. Interim reexaminations are not required to be held in-person.This waiver ends on December 31, 2020.PHAs must also notify the program residents and owners of any waiver and alternative requirements that it is adopting and the impact the that waiver and alternative requirement will have on the resident and owner. Although the waiver provides up to 90 days to submit form HUD-50058, HUD encourages PHAs that have operational capacity to continue submitting form HUD-50058 within the normal 60-day timeframe.A PHA may accept the owner’s self-certification until July 31, 2020 and has until October 31, 2020 to inspect the units to which this waiver applies.HUD will not issue PHAS scores that are pending or for fiscal years ending in 2020 unless a PHA requests a PHAS score. Click on the following links to learn more. PHAs may consider self-certification as the highest form of income verification for interim reexaminations. The PHA may add other requirements. Income and family composition examinations and recertifications do not have to conducted in-person.HUD is waiving the statutory requirement that HUD must respond to Designated Housing Plans that demonstrate project compliance with requirements to establish occupancy by elderly and/or disabled families no later than 60 days after receiving the plan. The waiver may also apply to PHA-owned units, if the independent entity is unable to perform the inspection.HUD is establishing an alternative requirement for which PHAs with 6/30/20 or 9/30/20 fiscal year-end (FYE) dates must submit their 5-Year and annual plansor civil rights certification for qualified PHAs no later than 10/18/20 (75 days before 1/1/21).