Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 24, 2024

Title 24 - Housing and Urban Development last revised: Nov 13, 2024
§ 960.201 - Eligibility.

(a) Who is eligible? (1) Basic eligibility. An applicant must meet all eligibility requirements in order to receive housing assistance. At a minimum, the applicant must be a family, as defined in § 5.403 of this title, must be income-eligible, as described in this section, and must meet the net asset and property ownership restriction requirements in § 5.618 of this title. Such eligible applicants include single persons.

(2) Low income limit. No family other than a low income family is eligible for admission to a PHA's public housing program.

(b) Income used for eligibility and targeting. Family annual income (see § 5.609) is used both for determination of income eligibility under paragraph (a) and for PHA income targeting under § 960.202

(c) Reporting. The PHA must comply with HUD-prescribed reporting requirements that will permit HUD to maintain the data, as determined by HUD, necessary to monitor compliance with income eligibility and targeting requirement.

[66 FR 28799, May 24, 2001, as amended at 88 FR 9670, Feb. 14, 2023]
source: 40 FR 33446, Aug. 8, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 49 FR 6714, Feb. 23, 1984.
cite as: 24 CFR 960.201