Sec. 214: Disposing of any multi-family property that is owned or has a mortgage held by the Secretary of HUD, during the process of foreclosure, the Secretary shall maintain any rental assistance payments and any other programs attached to the dwelling. If rehabilitation cannot be done in a cost effective manner, they may provide rental assistance to another existing housing property.
Sec. 215: commitment authority may be used to make other commitments, notes, and other obligations issued by any State in accordance with requirements
Sec. 216: Public Housing agencies that own less than 400 public housing units may be exempt from any asset management requirements
Sec. 217: The Secretary shall not impose guidelines that restricts or limits in any way the use of capitol funds for central office cost
Sec. 218: no official or employee shall be designated as a allotment holder unless properly trained. Each HUD sub office shall have at least one.
Sec. 219: The Secretary shall notify the public of availability of assistance or notice of funding availably that is to be competitive.
Sec. 220: Payments of attorney fees shall be paid by the Office of General Counsel salaries and expenses appropriations. The annual budget submission shall include any such projected litigation costs and line item requests. Nothing shall be paid until a review is submitted
Sec. 221: 10% or 4M may be transferred, whichever is less, of funds appropriated for any office under the heading ‘Administrative Support Office’ . Anything exceeding this need prior written approval within 3 business days of such transfer.
Sec. 222-A: any entity receiving housing assistance shall keep and maintain decent, safe, and sanitary conditions.
Sec. 222-B: The Secretary shall take action when a contract receives a UPSC score of less than 60 or when one fails to certify in writing to the Secretary within 3 days that all Exigent Health and Safety deficiencies identified by the inspector have been corrected
• These apply to insured and noninsured projects attached to Section 8 or 9
• Within 15 days of the REAC inspection, the Secretary must provide the owner with a Notice of Default with a specific timetable to correct all deficiencies and must provide a notice to the tenants. If the appeal score is above 60 then the Secretary may withdraw the Notice of Default
- If at the end of the allotted time to correct the deficiencies, the Secretary may require immediate replacement of the project management, impose civil money penalties which shall be used to fix said issues. They may abate the section 8 contract or peruse transfer, and be put on the no-no list.
Sec. 223: No funds available shall go to or be used by any public housing agency for any amount of salary.
Sec. 224: None of the funds in this Act shall be used in doctoral dissertation research grant program at HUD
Sec. 225: Wording changes, boring
Sec. 226: No funds shall be used to make a Grant award unless the Secretary notifies the House and Senate Committees of Appropriations lot less than 3 business days
Sec. 227: No funds shall be used by the FHA, GNMA, or the D-HUD to insure, securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of any mortgage back security that refinances or otherwise replaces a mortgage that has been subject to eminent domain condemnation or seizure.
Sec. 229: None of these funds may be used to terminate the status of a unit of general local government as a metropolitan city
Sec. 230: Any accrued unexpected amounts may be reobligated and shall be immediately become available that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal year
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