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. Administrative Plan 7/1/2025 <br />. <br />Page TPS-5 <br />Utility deposit assistance/utility arrears. SAHA may provide utility deposit assistance <br />for some or all of the family’s utility deposit expenses. Assistance can be provided for <br />deposits (including connection fees) required for the utilities to be supplied by the tenant <br />under the lease. SAHA may pay the utility deposit assistance directly to the utility <br />company or may pay the assistance to the family. If paid to the family, SAHA will <br />require documentation the family paid the utility deposit. SAHA will require the utility <br />supplier or family to return the utility deposit assistance to SAHA at such time the <br />deposit is returned by the utility supplier (less any amounts retained by the utility <br />supplier). In addition, some families may have large balances with gas, electric, water, <br />sewer, or trash companies that will make it difficult if not impossible to establish services <br />for tenant-supplied utilities. SAHA may also provide the family with assistance to help <br />address these utility arrears to facilitate leasing. Utility deposit assistance returned to <br />SAHA will be used for either services fee eligible uses or other EHV administrative <br />costs, as required by HUD. <br />Owner recruitment and outreach for EHVs. SAHA may use the service fee funding to <br />conduct owner recruitment and outreach specifically for EHVs. In addition to traditional <br />owner recruitment and outreach, activities may include conducting pre-inspections or <br />otherwise expediting the inspection process, providing enhanced customer service, and <br />offering owner incentive and/or retention payments. <br />Owner incentive and/or retention payments. SAHA may make incentive or retention <br />payments to owners that agree to initially lease their unit to an EHV family and/or renew <br />the lease of an EHV family. <br />Payments will be made as a single payment at the beginning of the assisted lease term (or <br />lease renewal if a retention payment). Owner incentive and retentions payments are not <br />housing assistance payments, are not part of the rent to owner, and are not taken into <br />consideration when determining whether the rent for the unit is reasonable. <br />Moving expenses (including move-in fees and deposits). SAHA may provide <br />assistance for some or all of the family’s reasonable moving expenses when they initially <br />lease a unit with the EHV. SAHA will not provide moving expenses assistance for <br />subsequent moves unless the family is required to move for reasons other than something <br />the family did or failed to do (e.g., SAHA is terminating the HAP contract because the <br />owner did not fulfill the owner responsibilities under the HAP contract or the owner is <br />refusing to offer the family the opportunity to enter a new lease after the initial lease <br />term, as opposed to the family choosing to terminate the tenancy in order to move to <br />another unit), or a family has to move due to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual <br />assault, or stalking. <br />Tenant-readiness services. SAHA may use fees to help create a customized plan to <br />address or mitigate barriers that individual families may face in renting a unit with an <br />EHV, such as negative credit, lack of credit, negative rental or utility history, or to <br />connect the family to other community resources (including COVID-related resources) <br />that can assist with rental arrears. <br />EXHIBIT 1