Nondiscrimination When Matching Applicants to Available Units

Although an owner may establish preferences to admit households with specific characteristics from the waiting list, the owner must never base applicant selection or denial of assistance upon:

1. Membership in a socio-economic class (e.g., welfare recipients, single parent households) or lack of membership in the sponsoring organization;

2. Familial status;

3. Race, color, religion, sex, or national origin of household members;

4. Whether the household has a member with a specific disability (unless restricted by program statute);

5. Family size (However, if the family size requires a unit size that does not exist in the property, the family must be denied assistance. See paragraph 4-9.); and

6. Age (unless restricted by program statute).

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