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Owners may receive inquiries or applications from families wishing to use a Housing Choice Voucher in their property. The Housing Choice Voucher program is a form of rental subsidy administered by public housing agencies (PHAs) that allows families to

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Section 2: Project Eligibility rent units in the marketplace and receive a subsidy from the PHA. The rules governing the use of vouchers in multifamily projects vary depending upon the type of subsidy operating at the project.

Owners must use the Existing Tenant Search in accordance with their screening policy to determine if an applicant or members of an applicant’s household are receiving assistance at another location. Owners must also use the Multiple Subsidy Report to determine if any of their tenants are receiving assistance at another location. These reports search both the Public and Indian Housing’s Inventory Management System (IMS (formerly known as the Public and Indian Housing Information Center (PIC)) and the Multifamily Housing’s TRACS databases. See Chapter 9, Enterprise Income Verification (EIV).

A. 100% of Units Receive Assistance under an Assistance Contract

Owners may not admit an applicant with a voucher, unless the applicant agrees to give up the voucher prior to occupancy. Before admitting such applicants, owners must inform voucher holders of the following:

The family must be placed on the project waiting list and must give up the voucher when the family moves into the project.
If the family later moves out of the project, the project subsidy will not move with the family as it does with a voucher; and
The family will need to reapply to the PHA to receive another voucher.