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percent of adjusted monthly income as the family share, SAHA will consider increasing the payment standard. In evaluating rent burdens, SAHA will not include families renting a larger unit than their family unit size. Quality of Units Selected : SAHA will review the quality of units selected by participant families when making the determination of the percent of income families are paying for housing, to ensure that payment standard increases are only made when needed to reach the mid-range of the market. Changes in Rent to Owner : SAHA may review a sample of the units to determine how often owners are increasing or decreasing rents and the average percent of increases/decreases by bedroom size. Unit Availability SAHA may review the availability of units for each unit size, : particularly in areas with low concentrations of poor and minority families. Lease-up Time and Success Rate : SAHA will consider the percentage of families that are unable to locate suitable housing before the voucher expires and whether families are leaving the jurisdiction to find affordable housing. st Changes to payment standard amounts will be effective on December 1 of every year standard amounts will be outside the basic range when the final FMRs are published. In st payment standards will be effective on October 1 instead of st December 1. If SAHA has already processed reexaminations that will be effective on or after October stst 1, and the effective date of the payment standards if October 1, SAHA will make retroactive adjustments to any such reexaminations if the new payment standard amount is higher than the one used at the time the reexamination was originally processed. Exception Payment Standards \[982.503(c)\] The PHA must request HUD approval to establish payment standards that are higher than the higher than the basic range for a designated part of the FMR area. HUD may approve an exception payment standard amount (in accordance with program requirements) for all units, or for all units of a given size, leased by program families in the exception area. Any PHA with jurisdiction in the exception area may use the HUD-approved exception payment standard amount. The total population of all HUD-approved exception areas in an FMR area may not include more than 50 percent of the population of the FMR area. Unit-by-Unit Exceptions \[24 CFR 982.503(c)(2)(ii)\] Unit-by-unit exceptions to s payment standards generally are not permitted. However, an exception may be made as a reasonable accommodation for a family that includes a person with disabilities. (See Chapter 2 for a discussion of reasonable accommodations.) This type of exception does not affect the PHA When needed as a reasonable accommodation, the PHA may make an exception to the payment standard without HUD approval if the exception amount does not exceed 110 percent of the 04/01/14 Page 16-4