Nan McKay HCV Specialist Certification
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Graded A+ Latest Versions 2026
Allocates funds, develops regulations and procedures, contracts with PHAs
to carry them out, and monitors PHA performance & compliance.
HUD
The contract between a tenant and a landlord
Includes:
a. The names of the owner and tenant
b. The address of the unit rented
c. The term of the lease (initial and renewal terms)
d. A specification of what utilities and appliances are
to be supplied by the owner
e. A specification of what utilities and appliances are
to be supplied by the tenant
Renews according to its terms
Governs the frequency of rent increases
Individuals must have legal capacity in their state in order to sign it
Must have an initial term of at least a year unless the prevailing market
practice differs and the PHA approves a shorter term.
Lists utility responsibilities
,An unexecuted copy is turned in with the RFTA when the family finds a unit.
Lease
Which of the following has a shelf life (usually one year unless extended)?
HUD Notices
HUD-required written plan that establishes local PHA policies for
administering the HCV program, provides daily guidance to PHA staff, must
be adopted and approved by the board, and must be submitted to HUD.
· Waiting list selection and procedures
· Rules for specific funding
· Definition of family
· Definition of continuously assisted family
· Standards for termination and denial of assistance
· Outreach to landlords in non-low income and non-minority concentrated
areas
· Subsidy standards
· Definition of absence from unit
· Residency requirements
· Move restrictions
· Informal review and hearing processes
· Overpayment and repayment policies and procedures
· Guidelines for inspections, screening standards and requirements
· Voucher term, voucher extensions
· Family break up: protocol for who receives voucher
Approved by board of commissioners, submitted to HUD
Administrative Plan
, 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:
Exam Questions and Answers Already
Graded A+ Latest Versions 2026
Allocates funds, develops regulations and procedures, contracts with PHAs
to carry them out, and monitors PHA performance & compliance.
HUD
The contract between a tenant and a landlord
Includes:
a. The names of the owner and tenant
b. The address of the unit rented
c. The term of the lease (initial and renewal terms)
d. A specification of what utilities and appliances are
to be supplied by the owner
e. A specification of what utilities and appliances are
to be supplied by the tenant
Renews according to its terms
Governs the frequency of rent increases
Individuals must have legal capacity in their state in order to sign it
Must have an initial term of at least a year unless the prevailing market
practice differs and the PHA approves a shorter term.
Lists utility responsibilities
,An unexecuted copy is turned in with the RFTA when the family finds a unit.
Lease
Which of the following has a shelf life (usually one year unless extended)?
HUD Notices
HUD-required written plan that establishes local PHA policies for
administering the HCV program, provides daily guidance to PHA staff, must
be adopted and approved by the board, and must be submitted to HUD.
· Waiting list selection and procedures
· Rules for specific funding
· Definition of family
· Definition of continuously assisted family
· Standards for termination and denial of assistance
· Outreach to landlords in non-low income and non-minority concentrated
areas
· Subsidy standards
· Definition of absence from unit
· Residency requirements
· Move restrictions
· Informal review and hearing processes
· Overpayment and repayment policies and procedures
· Guidelines for inspections, screening standards and requirements
· Voucher term, voucher extensions
· Family break up: protocol for who receives voucher
Approved by board of commissioners, submitted to HUD
Administrative Plan
, 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:
