HCV SPECIALIST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Contract between family and PHA.
Initially issued for at least 60 calendar days.
Describes family obligations
Is issued at initial admission and for moves
Authorizes the family to search for a unit
Document that authorizes the family to search for an eligible unit which also specifies
the size of that unit. Also lists the family obligations under the program.
Issuance does not obligate PHA to provide assistance to family - ✔✔Voucher/HUD-
52646
✔✔Type of assistance where families choose their units. - ✔✔Tenant-based Subsidy
✔✔Contract between the owner and the PHA.
Begins on the first day of lease. Ends on the same day as the lease.
PHA must approve a new tenancy and execute a new HAP contract is the family moved
into a new unit in the same complex.
PHA may pay the owner retroactively if the HAP contract is executed within 60 days of
the beginning of the lease term.
Terminates if the lease terminates.
Part A includes:
Initial lease term
Initial rent to owner
Initial HAP
Utilities/appliances provided by tenant & owner
Names of all persons who reside in unit
May add verbiage the prohibits owners from charging excessive security deposits.
Part B includes: - ✔✔HAP Contract/HUD-52641
✔✔Passes authorizing HSG legislation and passes appropriation bills. - ✔✔Congress
✔✔Signs legislation - ✔✔President
,✔✔Reviews HUD regs & apportion funds. - ✔✔Office of Management and Budget
(OMB)
✔✔Passes legislation allowing creation of PHAs and oversees structural operation
Foreclosing protection are now governed by state law - ✔✔State
✔✔Appoints board of commissioners
Executes cooperation agreement for PHA services - ✔✔Local Government
✔✔Provides decent, affordable housing
Administers funding according to ACC
Establishes local policies
Complies w/fed, state, local laws; HUD regs
Affirmatively furthers fair housing - ✔✔PHA
✔✔Administers and manages the Housing Choice
Voucher (HCV) program - ✔✔Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH)
✔✔Assume responsibility for day-to-day oversight of
program performance and compliance. - ✔✔HUD Field Offices
✔✔Provides income/family info to PHA
Searches for housing
Pays tenant portion of rent & utilities &
adheres to lease requirements
Cooperates with PHA in annual/biennial
inspections & reexaminations
Must have legal capacity under state and local law to enter into a lease - ✔✔Tenant
✔✔Selects and screens tenants
Receives HAP payments
Complies with HUD/PHA requirements
Maintains property
Enforces lease
Responsible for screening the tenant for suitability for tenancy
PHA must give the owner the current and former address of the family (if known) -
✔✔Owner
✔✔1. Age
2. Color
3. National origin
4. Religion
5. Race
6. Disability
, 7. Family Status - ✔✔Federally Protected Classes
✔✔Being treated differently when you didn't ask to be treated differently. -
✔✔Discrimination
✔✔If the request is reasonable, the PHA may be able to make the change.
Accommodations or changes ensure that a person with disabilities has equal access to
housing.
In the HCV program, a person making changes to the unit may need to pay for the
change. - ✔✔Reasonable Accomodation
✔✔Offers protections to victims (men, women, and children) of domestic violence,
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Prevents homelessness, protects those
who reside in section 8 housing, ensures access to criminal justice system without
jeopardizing housing. - ✔✔Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
✔✔Race
Color
Sex
Age
Disability
Familial status
religion
national origin
sexual orientation
gender identity
marital status - ✔✔HUD Protected Classes
✔✔Eligibility, Allowances, and Deductions - ✔✔Disability - HUD/SS Definition
✔✔More broadly defined than the definition used for eligibility and allowances of a
disabled family. - ✔✔Disability - ADA
✔✔A PHA CANNOT require third-party verification to verify the nature and extent of the
requester's disability or whether the requester can live independently.
Not reasonable if they impose undue administrative and financial burdens of PHA
Pertains to all areas of HCV program (not just admissions).
If denied the PHA should offer an alternative accommodation that would effectively
address the disability-related needs.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Contract between family and PHA.
Initially issued for at least 60 calendar days.
Describes family obligations
Is issued at initial admission and for moves
Authorizes the family to search for a unit
Document that authorizes the family to search for an eligible unit which also specifies
the size of that unit. Also lists the family obligations under the program.
Issuance does not obligate PHA to provide assistance to family - ✔✔Voucher/HUD-
52646
✔✔Type of assistance where families choose their units. - ✔✔Tenant-based Subsidy
✔✔Contract between the owner and the PHA.
Begins on the first day of lease. Ends on the same day as the lease.
PHA must approve a new tenancy and execute a new HAP contract is the family moved
into a new unit in the same complex.
PHA may pay the owner retroactively if the HAP contract is executed within 60 days of
the beginning of the lease term.
Terminates if the lease terminates.
Part A includes:
Initial lease term
Initial rent to owner
Initial HAP
Utilities/appliances provided by tenant & owner
Names of all persons who reside in unit
May add verbiage the prohibits owners from charging excessive security deposits.
Part B includes: - ✔✔HAP Contract/HUD-52641
✔✔Passes authorizing HSG legislation and passes appropriation bills. - ✔✔Congress
✔✔Signs legislation - ✔✔President
,✔✔Reviews HUD regs & apportion funds. - ✔✔Office of Management and Budget
(OMB)
✔✔Passes legislation allowing creation of PHAs and oversees structural operation
Foreclosing protection are now governed by state law - ✔✔State
✔✔Appoints board of commissioners
Executes cooperation agreement for PHA services - ✔✔Local Government
✔✔Provides decent, affordable housing
Administers funding according to ACC
Establishes local policies
Complies w/fed, state, local laws; HUD regs
Affirmatively furthers fair housing - ✔✔PHA
✔✔Administers and manages the Housing Choice
Voucher (HCV) program - ✔✔Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH)
✔✔Assume responsibility for day-to-day oversight of
program performance and compliance. - ✔✔HUD Field Offices
✔✔Provides income/family info to PHA
Searches for housing
Pays tenant portion of rent & utilities &
adheres to lease requirements
Cooperates with PHA in annual/biennial
inspections & reexaminations
Must have legal capacity under state and local law to enter into a lease - ✔✔Tenant
✔✔Selects and screens tenants
Receives HAP payments
Complies with HUD/PHA requirements
Maintains property
Enforces lease
Responsible for screening the tenant for suitability for tenancy
PHA must give the owner the current and former address of the family (if known) -
✔✔Owner
✔✔1. Age
2. Color
3. National origin
4. Religion
5. Race
6. Disability
, 7. Family Status - ✔✔Federally Protected Classes
✔✔Being treated differently when you didn't ask to be treated differently. -
✔✔Discrimination
✔✔If the request is reasonable, the PHA may be able to make the change.
Accommodations or changes ensure that a person with disabilities has equal access to
housing.
In the HCV program, a person making changes to the unit may need to pay for the
change. - ✔✔Reasonable Accomodation
✔✔Offers protections to victims (men, women, and children) of domestic violence,
dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Prevents homelessness, protects those
who reside in section 8 housing, ensures access to criminal justice system without
jeopardizing housing. - ✔✔Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
✔✔Race
Color
Sex
Age
Disability
Familial status
religion
national origin
sexual orientation
gender identity
marital status - ✔✔HUD Protected Classes
✔✔Eligibility, Allowances, and Deductions - ✔✔Disability - HUD/SS Definition
✔✔More broadly defined than the definition used for eligibility and allowances of a
disabled family. - ✔✔Disability - ADA
✔✔A PHA CANNOT require third-party verification to verify the nature and extent of the
requester's disability or whether the requester can live independently.
Not reasonable if they impose undue administrative and financial burdens of PHA
Pertains to all areas of HCV program (not just admissions).
If denied the PHA should offer an alternative accommodation that would effectively
address the disability-related needs.
