5138107 Housing Authority, DC - Notice of Final Rulemaking - Amending Chapter 93, Partnership Program for Affordable Housing

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOUSING AUTHORITY

NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING

The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia Housing Authority (“DCHA”), pursuant to the District of Columbia Housing Authority Act of 1999, effective May 9, 2000, as amended (D.C. Law 13-105; D.C. Official Code § 6-203 (2012 Repl.)), hereby gives notice of its intent to adopt as final regulations the following amendments to Chapter 93 (Partnership Program for Affordable Housing), of Title 14 (Housing) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).

 

The purpose of the final rulemaking is to amend the existing regulations in order to facilitate the production and operation of affordable housing for extremely low income persons in the District of Columbia, by combining the Local Rent Supplement Program and the Low Rent Housing Program, through the administration of the Partnership Program for Affordable Housing.

 

A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on these rules was published July 18, 2014 at 61 DCR 007275. No comments were received.

 

Final action to adopt this rulemaking was taken at the Board of Commissioners regular meeting on October 8, 2014.  The final rules will become effective upon publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.

 

Chapter 93, PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, of Title 14, HOUSING, is amended as follows:

 

Subsection 9300.1 is amended by adding the following Subsection 9300.1(g) in its entirety, as follows:

(g)        As provided in 14 DCMR § 9313, where low rent housing operating assistance alone does not make the rental units affordable to income eligible households unless prohibited or determined by DCHA or HUD otherwise.

 

Subsection 9305.1(h) is deleted in its entirety and amended by adding the following Subsection 9305.1(h) in its entirety, as follows:

 

        (h)        Units subsidized with any District of Columbia rent subsidy except as
            provided in 14 DCMR § 9313.2.

 

Chapter 93, PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, of Title 14, HOUSING,  is amended by adding the following Section 9313, UNITS FUNDED WITH LOCAL RENT SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM UNDER SECTION 9504 AND LOW RENT HOUSING OPERATING ASSISTANCE, in its entirety, as follows:

 

9313                Units Funded with Local Rent Supplement Program under Section 9504 and Low Rent Housing Operating Assistance

 

9313.1             For any projects awarded funding pursuant to 14 DCMR § 9504 to be used in combination with low rent housing operating assistance administered in accordance with Title 14, such project shall be administered in accordance with the low rent housing program as provided in 14 DCMR § 6113 so long as it is not inconsistent with Chapters 93 and 95. 

 

9313.2             Units that receive low rent housing operating assistance administered in accordance with Title 14 and assistance under 14 DCMR § 9504, such units shall not be determined to receive duplicative federal housing subsidy if the total revenue per unit does not exceed the rent amount as provided in 14 DCMR § 9303.3.