Sec. 243.
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To encourage families to move to lower-poverty areas and expand access to opportunity areas, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (hereafter referred to as Secretary ) may implement a mobility demonstration to administer Housing Choice Voucher assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (hereafter referred to as 1937 Act ) ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f(o) ) for fiscal year 2017 through fiscal year 2021. The Secretary must establish the competitive selection criteria and requirements for participation in the demonstration.
The Secretary may require participating PHAs to use a randomized selection process among the families eligible to receive mobility assistance under this demonstration. Applicant PHAs must submit a Regional Housing Mobility Plan (hereafter referred to as the Plan ). The Plan must meet all requirements established by the Secretary and must identify— the PHAs that will participate in the regional housing mobility program and the number of vouchers each participating PHA will make available out of its existing programs in support of the mobility demonstration; any community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other entities that commit to participate; any waivers or alternative requirements requested for the execution of the Plan; and specific actions that the PHAs and other entities will undertake to accomplish the goals of the demonstration, which must include a comprehensive approach to enable a successful transition to opportunity areas and may include counseling and continued support for families.
The Plan may also establish preferences for participating families, including a preference for families with children, based on regional housing needs and priorities. The Plan may provide for the use of exception payment standards that do not exceed 110 percent of the HUD-published small area Fair Market Rent for the covered exception payment standard area. Units contributed by a PHA participating in a regional housing mobility program to a pool of vouchers that will be project-based within the jurisdiction of that program are exempt from the percentage limitation in section 8(o)(13)(B) of the 1937 Act.
In order to provide mobility-related services, PHAs participating in this demonstration may use administrative fees under section 8(q) of the 1937 Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f(q) ), their administrative fee reserves, and funding from private entities. Mobility-related services may include but are not limited to such things as counseling, portability coordination, landlord outreach, and administrative activities associated with establishing and operating a regional housing mobility program.
In order to allow for PHAs to implement and administer their Plans, the Secretary may waive or specify alternative requirements for the following provisions of the 1937 Act: Sections 8(o)(7)(A) and 8(o)(13)(E)(i) (related to the term of a family’s assisted lease and associated mobility requirements). Section 8(o)(13)(C)(i) (related to the ability of a PHA participating in a regional housing mobility program to administer assistance contributed to the program consistent with the Plan identified in paragraph (2)).
Section 8(o)(13)(F) (related to the term of a housing assistance payments
(HAP)contract). Section 8(r)(2) (related to the ability of a PHA participating in a regional housing mobility program to administer assistance under section 8(o) anywhere within the jurisdiction of that program). Section 8(x)(2) (related to the length of time a PHA may provide assistance under section 8(o) to youth participating in the Family Unification Program (FUP)). The Secretary must publish by notice in the Federal Register any waivers or alternative requirements for statutory provisions no later than 10 days before the effective date of such notice. The Secretary may implement the demonstration, including its terms, procedures, requirements, and conditions, by notice. No later than five years following implementation of the regional housing mobility programs, the Secretary must publish an evaluation of the effectiveness of the demonstration, subject to the availability of funding to conduct the evaluation.
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