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HUD Handbook 4350.3: Occupancy Requirements of Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs

2-37 Limitations on Owners’ Obligations to Make Their Housing Physically Accessible to…

HUD Handbook 4350.3 REV-1 — Occupancy Requirements of Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs · 2026 edition · updated 2026-10-05 · United States

  • A. Owners are not required to make structural changes where other methods are effective in achieving compliance with paragraph 2-35.

  • B. Owners are not required to make alterations that have little likelihood of being accomplished without removing or altering a load-bearing structural member. See 24 CFR 8.32(c).

  • C. In some cases, an accessible building entrance cannot be provided without triggering one of the actions in subparagraph B above or resulting in undue financial and administrative burden. In such cases, an owner will have to take other reasonable steps to insure program accessibility, including in some cases, making additional units accessible in other buildings operated by the owner.

  • D. Owners do not have to make mechanical rooms and other spaces accessible when, because of their intended use, they do not require accessibility by the public, by tenants, or by employees with physical disabilities.

  • E. Owners are not required to install an elevator solely for the purpose of making units accessible.

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HUD Handbook 4350.3 REV-1 — Occupancy Requirements of Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs

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