24 CFR § 960.201 - Eligibility.

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title: "24 CFR § 960.201 - Eligibility."
title_number: 24
title_name: "Housing and Urban Development"
section_number: "960.201"
section_name: "Eligibility."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT"
part_number: "960"
part_name: "ADMISSION TO, AND OCCUPANCY OF, PUBLIC HOUSING"
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authority: "42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437c, 1437d, 1437n, 1437z-3, and 3535(d)."
regulatory_source: "40 FR 33446, Aug. 8, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 49 FR 6714, Feb. 23, 1984."
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# 960.201 Eligibility.

(a) *Who is eligible?* (1) *Basic eligibility.* An applicant must meet all eligibility requirements in order to receive housing assistance. At a minimum, the applicant must be a family, as defined in § 5.403 of this title, must be income-eligible, as described in this section, and must meet the net asset and property ownership restriction requirements in § 5.618 of this title. Such eligible applicants include single persons.

(2) *Low income limit.* No family other than a low income family is eligible for admission to a PHA's public housing program.

(b) *Income used for eligibility and targeting.* Family annual income (see § 5.609) is used both for determination of income eligibility under paragraph (a) and for PHA income targeting under § 960.202

(c) *Reporting.* The PHA must comply with HUD-prescribed reporting requirements that will permit HUD to maintain the data, as determined by HUD, necessary to monitor compliance with income eligibility and targeting requirement.

[66 FR 28799, May 24, 2001, as amended at 88 FR 9670, Feb. 14, 2023]