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

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Administrative Plan 7/1/2025 Page 17-20 17-II.C. NON-COMPETITIVE PROJECT SELECTION [24 CFR 983.51(c)] The PHA may select units without a competitive selection process in certain circumstances described in 24 CFR 983.51(c) and FR Notice 8/13/24. Prior to selecting units based on the below criteria, the PHA must notify the public of its intent to noncompetitively select one or more projects for PBV assistance through its 5-Year Plan. If this requirement is not met, the PHA may not select units non-competitively. The PHA may select units for PBV assistance without following a competitive process in the following circumstances:  The PHA may select existing, newly constructed, or rehabilitated public housing projects where the PHA has an ownership interest or over which the PHA has control, when the PHA is engaged in an initiative to improve, develop, or replace a public housing property or site. - The public housing units may either currently be in the public housing inventory or may have been removed from the public housing inventory through any available legal removal tool within five years of the project selection date.  The PHA may select for future PBV assistance a project currently under the public housing program, or a project that is replacing the public housing project, in which a PHA has no ownership interest, or which a PHA has no control over, provided: - The public housing project is either still in the public housing inventory or had been removed from the public housing inventory through any available legal removal tool within five years of the project selection date; - The PHA that owned or owns the public housing project does not administer the HCV program; - The project selected for PBV assistance was specifically identified as replacement housing for the impacted public housing residents as part of the public housing demolition/disposition application, voluntary conversion application, or any other application process submitted to and approved by HUD to remove the public housing project from the public housing inventory; and - With respect to replacement housing, the PHA does not have to replace the housing on the same site as the original public housing, but the number of contract units in the replacement project may not exceed the number of units in the original public housing project by more than a de minimis amount for this exception to apply.  The PHA may select a project consisting of PHA-owned units as defined at 24 CFR 982.4. - The units must continue to meet the definition of PHA-owned for the initial two years of the HAP contract unless there is a transfer of ownership approved by HUD.  The PHA may select a project that underwent an eligibility event within five years of the project selection date, in which a family (or families) qualifies for enhanced voucher assistance and provided informed consent to relinquish its enhanced voucher for PBV assistance. EXHIBIT 1