HA Item 05 -Update to the Housing Choice Voucher Administrative Plan

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. Administrative Plan 7/1/2025 Page 10-18 Briefing HUD allows the receiving PHA to require a briefing for an incoming portable family as long as the requirement does not unduly delay the family’s search [Notice PIH 2016-09]. SAHA Policy SAHA will require the family to attend a briefing. SAHA will provide the family with a briefing packet (as described in Chapter 5) and, in an individual briefing, will orally inform the family about SAHA’s payment and subsidy standards, procedures for requesting approval of a unit within the City of Santa Ana city limits (does not include unincorporated areas), the unit inspection process, and the leasing process. Income Eligibility and Reexamination The receiving PHA does not redetermine eligibility for a portable family that was already receiving assistance in the initial PHA’s voucher program [24 CFR 982.355(c)(9)]. If the receiving PHA opts to conduct a new reexamination for a current participant family, the receiving PHA may not delay issuing the family a voucher or otherwise delay approval of a unit [24 CFR 982.355(c)(11)]. SAHA Policy For any family moving into its jurisdiction under portability, SAHA will conduct a new reexamination of family income and composition. However, SAHA will not delay issuing the family a voucher for this reason. Nor will SAHA delay approving a unit for the family until the reexamination process is complete unless the family is an applicant and SAHA cannot otherwise confirm that the family is income eligible for admission to the program in the area where the unit is located. In conducting its own reexamination, SAHA will rely upon any verifications provided by the initial PHA to the extent that they (a) accurately reflect the family’s current circumstances and (b) were obtained within the last 120 days. Any new information may be verified by documents provided by the family and adjusted, if necessary, when third party verification is received. EXHIBIT 1