Section 14-7602. INCOME ELIGIBILITY AND TARGETING

 

7602.1Income Eligibility. All applicants must meet income eligibility requirements as established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, but generally household income under fifty percent (50%) of Area Median Income as defined by HUD (AMI) is required, as further limited as described below in this Section 7602. In certain limited situations where a family receives a voucher in connection with a property that is leaving the federal program, the income may be as high as ninety-five percent (95%) of AMI. Any exception to these requirements must have been previously approved by the HUD Field Office.

 

7602.2Income Targeting. A minimum of seventy-five percent (75%) of the families admitted to the HCVP during each fiscal year must be extremely low-income families. An extremely low-income family is one whose annual income does not exceed thirty percent (30%) of AMI.

 

7602.3Admission Income Monitoring. DCHA does not give an automatic preference for extremely low-income families. However, DCHA does monitor HCVP income- targeting requirements for admissions throughout the fiscal year, and take the following steps:

 

(a)If at any time the extremely low-income families make up less than seventy- five percent (75%) of the admissions from the waiting list for the fiscal year to date, DCHA shall thereafter give priority to extremely low-income families in each of the established preference categories until extremely low-income admissions again make up seventy-five percent (75%) of admissions for that fiscal year;

 

(b)If there are not enough extremely low-income families on the waiting list, DCHA shall conduct outreach on a non-discriminatory basis to attract extremely low-income families to reach the statutory requirement.

 

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Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking published at 52 DCR 11120 (August 20, 2004); as amended by Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 53 DCR 1153 (February 17, 2006).