Provides "Tenant Based" rental assistance to very low-income families, the elderly and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market.
What is the Housing Choice Voucher Program?
100
Conduct these reviews to assess performance of Owners/Agents
What is Management and Occupancy Reviews?
100
Inspection standard set by HUD performed through REAC.
What is UPCS?
100
Families can use the Housing Choice Voucher to purchase a home.
What is the Section 8 Homeownership Program?
100
HUD
What is Department of Housing and Urban Development?
200
Established to promote self-sufficiency of assisted families. An escrow account is the centerpiece.
What is the Family Self Sufficiency Program (FSS)?
200
179
What is the number of contracts administered under the PBCA by Rhode Island Housing?
200
1965
What is the year Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was created?
200
1835
What is the number of units Rhode Island Housing can lease under the HCVP Program?
200
ACC
What is Annual Contribution Contract?
300
Used by PHA to submit participant data to HUD.
What is PIC (Public and Indian Computer system)?
300
These agencies complete tasks relating to the PBRA when HUD transferred oversight in 1999
What is the Performance Based Contract Administrator?
300
Program Office that has oversight of Housing Choice Voucher Program?
What is Public and Indian Housing?
300
Over $15.1 million
What is the monthly subsidy paid by Rhode Island Housing for the PBCA and HCVP program?
300
TTP
What is Total Tenant Payment?
400
Created as part of the 1974 Housing Act shifting housing assistance from PHA to private sector.
What is Rental Certificate Program?
400
Used to cap rent increases of Section 8 contracts
What is the Operating Cost Adjustment Factor?
400
Program Office that has oversight of the Project Based Rental Assistance Program.
What is Office of Housing/Multifamily?
400
$440,000
What is monthly fee income earned for administering HCVP and PBRA?
400
VAWA
What is the Violence Against Women Act?
500
Merges the Certificate and Voucher Program creating HCVP
What is the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998?
500
Authorized Section 8 New Construction and Subs Rehab Funding
What is Housing Act of 1974?
500
Housing Act of 1937, as amended 1974, authorizes the payment of rental housing assistance to private landlords on behalf of low income households in the United States
What is Section 8?
500
Owners of lease to HCVP families have to meet the standards of these inspections
What is Housing Quality Standards?
500
RIMFC
What is Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp.?