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Colorado Springs Housing Authority

Providing Affordable Housing in the Pikes Peak Region

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COVID-19 Statutory and Regulatory Waivers

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Item: PH and HCV-2 Family Income and Composition: Delayed Annual Examinations

Statutory Authority Section 3(a)(1)

Regulatory Authority §§ 982.516(a)(1), 960.257(a)

  • Permits the PHA to delay the annual reexamination of income and family composition
  • HCV PHAs must implement HCV-7 for impacted families if they  implement this waiver

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH and HCV-3 Family Income and Composition: Annual Examination; Income Verification Requirements

Regulatory Authority §§ 5.233(a)(2), 960.259(c), 982.516(a)

Sub-regulatory Guidance PIH Notice 2018-18

  • Waives the requirements to use the income hierarchy, including the use of EIV, and will allow PHAs to consider self certification as the highest form of income verification
  • PHAs that implement this waiver will be responsible for addressing material income discrepancies that may arise later

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA Adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH and HCV-4 Family Income and Composition: Interim Examinations

Statutory Authority Section 3(a)(1)

Regulatory Authority §§ 5.233(a)(2), 982.516(c)(2), 960.257(a), (b) and (d), 960.259(c)

Sub-regulatory Guidance PIH Notice 2018-18

  • Waives the requirement to use the income verification requirements, including the use of EIV, for interim reexaminations

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH and HCV-5 Enterprise Income

Verification (EIV) Monitoring

Regulatory Authority § 5.233

Sub-regulatory Guidance PIH Notice 2018-18

  • Waives the mandatory EIV monitoring requirements.

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH and HCV-7 Waiting List: Opening and Closing; Public Notice

Regulatory Authority § 982.206(a)(2)

Sub-regulatory Guidance PIH Notice 2012-34

  • Waives public notice requirements for opening and closing waiting list
  • Requires alternative process

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HQS-5 HQS Inspection Requirement: Biennial Inspections

Statutory Authority Section 8(o)(D)

Regulatory Authority §§ 982.405(a), 983.103(d)

  • Allows for delay in biennial inspections
  • All delayed biennial inspections must be completed as soon as reasonably possible but by no later than 1 year after the date on which the biennial inspection would have been required absent the waiver.

Availability Period Ends: 10/31/20. 1 year after the date on which the biennial inspection would have been required absent the waiver

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HQS-6 HQS Interim Inspections

Regulatory Authority § 983.103(c)

  • Allows for PBV turnover units to be filled based on owner certification there are no life-threatening deficiencies
  • Allows for delayed full HQS inspection NLT than 1-year anniversary of date of owner’s certification.

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20. 1-year anniversary of date of owner’s certification

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HQS-9 HQS Quality Control Inspections

Regulatory Authority §§ 982.405(b), 983.103(e)(3)

Provides for a suspension of the requirement for QC sampling inspections

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HQS-10 Housing Quality Standards: Space and Security

Regulatory Authority § 982.401(d)

Waives the requirement that each dwelling unit have at least 1 bedroom or living/sleeping room for each 2 persons.

Remains in effect one year from lease term or date of this Notice, whichever is longer.

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HCV-1 Administrative Plan

Regulatory Authority § 982.54(a)

  • Establishes an alternative requirement that policies may be adopted without board approval
  • Any provisions adopted informally must be adopted formally NLT December 31, 2020

Availability Period Ends: 9/30/20. 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HCV-2 Information When Family is Selected: PHA Oral Briefing

Regulatory Authority §§ 982.301(a)(1), 983.252(a)

  • Waives the requirement for an oral briefing
  • Provides for alternative methods to conduct required voucher briefing

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HCV-3 Term of Voucher: Extensions of Term

Regulatory Authority § 982.303(b)(1)

  • Allows PHAs to provide voucher extensions regardless of current PHA policy

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HCV-4 PHA Approval of Assisted Tenancy: When HAP Contract is Executed

Regulatory Authority § 982.305(c)

  • Provides for HAP payments for contracts not executed within 60 days
  • PHA must not pay HAP to owner until HAP contract is executed

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HCV-5 Absence from Unit

Regulatory Authority § 982.312

  • Allows for PHA discretion on absences from units longer than 180 days
  • PHAs must not make HAP payments beyond 12/31/20 for units vacant more than 180 consecutive days

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HCV-6 Automatic Termination of HAP Contract

Regulatory Authority § 982.455

  • Allows PHA to extend the period of time after the last HAP payment
  • is made before the HAP contract terminates automatically.

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HCV-8 Utility Allowance Schedule: Required Review and Revision

Regulatory Authority § 982.517

  • Provides for delay in updating utility allowance schedule

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: HCV-14 Mandatory Removal of Unit from PBV HAP Contract

Regulatory Authority §§ 983.211(a); 983.258

  • Allows a PHA to keep a PBV unit under contract for a period of time that extends beyond 180 from the last HAP but does not extend beyond December 31, 2020

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 7/7/20


Item: PH-1 Fiscal Closeout of Capital Grant Funds

Regulatory Authority § 905.322(b)

  • Extension of deadlines for ADCC and AMCC

Availability Period Ends: varies by PHA

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH-2 Total Development Costs

Regulatory Authority § 905.314(c) - (d)

  • Waives the TDC and HCC limits permitting approval of amounts in excess of published TDC by 25% to 50% on a case by case basis

Availability Period Ends: Applies to development proposals submitted to HUD no later than December 31, 2021

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH-4 ACOP: Adoption of Tenant Selection Policies

Regulatory Authority § 960.202(c)(1)

  • Establishes an alternative requirement that policies may be adopted without board approval
  • Any provisions adopted informally must be adopted formally NLT December 31, 2020

Availability Period Ends: 9/30/20. 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH-5 Community Service and Self-Sufficiency Requirement (CSSR)

Statutory Authority Section 12(c)

Regulatory Authority §§ 960.603(a) and 960.603(b)

  • Temporarily suspends CSSR

Availability Period Ends: 3/31/21

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH-6 Energy Audits

Regulatory Authority § 965.302

  • Allows for delay in due dates of energy audits

Availability Period Ends: One year beyond 2020 audit deadline

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH-7 Over-Income Families

Statutory Authority Section 16(a)(5)

Sub-regulatory Guidance Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016: Final Implementation of the Public Housing Income Limit 83 FR 35490, Notice PIH 2019-11

  • Changes to timeframes for determination of over-income

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH-9 Review and Revision of Utility Allowance

Regulatory Authority § 965.507

  • Provides for delay in updating utility allowance schedule

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH-10 Tenant Notifications for Changes to Project Rules and Regulations

Regulatory Authority § 966.5

  • Advance notice not required except for policies related to tenant charges

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH-11: Designated Housing Plan Renewals

Statutory Authority: Section 7(f)

  • Extends the Plan’s effective period through December 31, 2020, for Plans due to expire between the date of this Notice and December 31, 2020.

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: PH-12: Public Housing Agency Annual Self-Inspections

Statutory Authority: Section 6(f)(3)

Regulatory Authority: § 902.20(d)

  • Waives the requirement that the PHA must inspect each project

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: 11a PHAS

Regulatory Authority 24 CFR Part 902

  • Allows for alternatives related to inspections
  • PHA to retain prior year PHAS score unless requests otherwise

Availability Period Ends: HUD will resume issuing new PHAS scores starting with PHAs with FYE dates of 3/31/21

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: 11b SEMAP

Regulatory Authority 24 CFR Part 985

  • PHA to retain prior year SEMAP score unless requests otherwise

Availability Period Ends: HUD will resume issuing new SEMAP scores starting with PHAs with FYE dates of 3/31/21

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: 12a PHA Reporting Requirements on HUD Form 50058

Regulatory Authority 24 CFR Part 908, § 982.158

Sub-regulatory Guidance PIH Notice 2011-65

  • Waives the requirement to submit 50058 within 60 days
  • Alternative requirement to submit within 90 days of the effective date of action

Availability Period Ends: 12/31/20

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


Item: 12c Extension of Deadline for 12c Extension of Deadline for Programmatic Obligation and Expenditure of Capital Funds

Statutory Authority Section 9(j)

Regulatory Authority § 905.306(d)(5)

  • Provides a one-year extension

Availability Period Ends: For all open Capital Fund grants, one-year extension from the obligation and expenditure end dates in LOCCS as of April 10, 2020

Date of PHA adoption: 4/15/20


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