Common use of Selection of Tenants Clause in Contracts

Selection of Tenants. 1. During the term of the HAP contract, the owner must lease all contract units to eligible families selected and referred by the PHA from the PHA waiting list. (See 24 CFR 983.251.) 2. The owner is responsible for adopting written tenant selection procedures that are consistent with the purpose of improving housing opportunities for very low-income families and reasonably related to program eligibility and an applicant’s ability to perform the lease obligations. 3. Consistent with HUD requirements, the owner may apply its own admission procedures in determining whether to admit a family referred by the PHA for occupancy of a contract unit. The owner may refer families to the PHA, and recommend selection of such families from the PHA waiting list for occupancy of vacant units. 4. The owner must promptly notify in writing any rejected applicant of the grounds for rejection. 5. The PHA must determine family eligibility in accordance with HUD requirements. 6. The contract unit leased to each family must be appropriate for the size of the family under the PHA’s subsidy standards. 7. If a contract unit was occupied by an eligible family at the time the unit was selected by the PHA, or is so occupied on the effective date of the HAP contract, the owner must offer the family the opportunity to lease the same or another appropriately-sized contract unit with assistance under the HAP contract. 8. The owner is responsible for screening and selecting tenants from the families referred by the PHA from its waiting list.