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

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Administrative Plan 7/1/2025 Page 17-79 Family Right to Move [24 CFR 983.261] The family may terminate the lease at any time after one year of PBV assistance. The family must give advance written notice to the owner in accordance with the lease and provide a copy of such notice to the PHA. If the family wishes to move with continued tenant-based assistance, the family must contact the PHA to request the rental assistance prior to providing notice to terminate the lease. The right to request a move with tenant-based assistance does not expire, and the family may request a move at any time after the one-year period has expired. If the family terminates the lease in accordance with these requirements, the PHA is required to offer the family the opportunity for continued tenant-based assistance, in the form of a voucher or other comparable tenant-based rental assistance. The PHA must specify in the administrative plan whether it will offer families assistance under the voucher program or other comparable tenant-based rental assistance. If voucher assistance is offered to the family and the search term expires, the PHA must issue the voucher to the next eligible family before issuing another voucher to the family that requested to move. If voucher or other comparable tenant-based assistance is not immediately available upon the family’s request to the PHA, the PHA must give the family priority to receive the next available opportunity for continued tenant-based assistance. The PHA must describe in its Administrative Plan its policies and procedures for how the family must contact the PHA and how the PHA documents families waiting for continued tenant-based rental assistance. If the family terminates the assisted lease before one year of PBV assistance, the family relinquishes the opportunity for continued tenant-based assistance. SAHA Policy Except for families seeking protection under VAWA as described below, prior to providing notice to the owner to terminate the lease, any eligible family may submit a written request to SAHA for a voucher at any time after completing the 12-month occupancy requirement. SAHA will process the request within 14 calendar days of receiving the family’s request. SAHA will verify that the family has met the 12-month occupancy requirement. No additional screening will be performed. If the request is approved by SAHA, the family will receive the next available tenant- based voucher. If a tenant-based voucher is not immediately available, SAHA will maintain a combined, agency-wide waiting list for all standard PBV and RAD PBV families wishing to move after one year of PBV assistance. A RAD resident does not have priority for tenant-based assistance over a non-RAD PBV resident and vice versa. The list will be maintained separately from the tenant-based HCV list. Families on this list will be given priority over families on the tenant-based waiting list. The list will be organized by date and time of the family’s written request. The list will also identify whether families live in standard or RAD PBV units. Once a family is placed on the list, SAHA will send the family an acknowledgement of receipt of their request and successful placement on the list. If a family requests a tenant-based voucher and then is unable or unwilling to move once SAHA offers the family a tenant-based voucher, the family’s name will be removed from the list. The family may resubmit a new request to move at any time. EXHIBIT 1