Item HA 03 - Update to the Housing Choice Voucher Administrative Plan

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Administrative Plan 7/1/2025 Page 17-9 A project is not limited to a single exception category but may include excepted units from any of the exception categories. SAHA Policy SAHA will have excepted units in certain PBV projects for the following: Supportive Services SAHA will provide excepted units that offer optional supportive services available to all PBV-assisted families in a project. Families are not required to participate in services as a condition of living in excepted units. The exception applies to any household eligible for the supportive services and is not limited to households with a family member with a disability. When families opt in to supportive services, such services will be made available to the family as quickly as reasonably practicable, but no longer than 120 calendar days from the family’s request. A unit is excepted from the project cap if any member of the family is eligible for one or more of the supportive services, even if the family chooses not to participate in the services. If a family member chooses to participate in and successfully completes the supportive services, the unit continues to count as an excepted unit for as long as the family resides in the unit, even if the members that continue to reside in the unit are ineligible during tenancy for all available supportive services. The unit loses its excepted status only if the entire family becomes ineligible during the tenancy for all supportive services available to the family. This provision does not apply where any member of the family has successfully completed the supportive services. A family cannot be terminated from the program or evicted from the unit because they become ineligible for all supportive services during the tenancy. FUP/FYI Assistance SAHA will provide excepted units made available exclusively for youth receiving FUP or FYI assistance. SAHA has determined that the limitation of PBV units to youth is consistent with the local housing needs of both eligible FUP populations (families and youth). A unit is excepted from the project cap or qualifies under the increased program cap, as applicable, if the unit is occupied by an eligible youth receiving FUP assistance. The youth must vacate the unit once the FUP assistance has expired. The unit loses its excepted status or no longer qualifies under the increased program cap, as applicable, if the youth does not move from the unit upon the expiration of the FUP assistance. Disabled Families SAHA will provide excepted units for disabled families (which is defined as a family whose head, spouse, cohead or sole member is a person with disabilities). SAHA will allow families who initially qualified to live in an excepted unit to remain when circumstances change due to circumstances beyond the remaining family members’ control. EXHIBIT 1