HCV SPECIALIST EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Local Government - ✔✔Appoints board of commissioners
Executes cooperation agreement for PHA services
✔✔PHA - ✔✔Provides decent, affordable housing
Administers funding according to ACC
Establishes local policies
Complies w/fed, state, local laws; HUD regs
Affirmatively furthers fair housing
✔✔Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) - ✔✔Administers and manages the
Housing Choice
Voucher (HCV) program
✔✔HUD Field Offices - ✔✔Assume responsibility for day-to-day oversight of
program performance and compliance.
✔✔Tenant - ✔✔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
✔✔Owner - ✔✔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)
✔✔Federally Protected Classes - ✔✔1. Age
2. Color
3. National origin
4. Religion
5. Race
6. Disability
7. Family Status
✔✔Discrimination - ✔✔Being treated differently when you didn't ask to be treated
differently.
, ✔✔Reasonable Accomodation - ✔✔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.
✔✔Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) - ✔✔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.
✔✔HUD Protected Classes - ✔✔Race
Color
Sex
Age
Disability
Familial status
religion
national origin
sexual orientation
gender identity
marital status
✔✔Disability - HUD/SS Definition - ✔✔Eligibility, Allowances, and Deductions
✔✔Disability - ADA - ✔✔More broadly defined than the definition used for eligibility and
allowances of a disabled family.
✔✔Reasonable Accommodation Request - ✔✔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.
client can rent from relative only if an exception is needed as RA
✔✔Live-in Aid - ✔✔1. Essential to the care and well-being of the person
2. Not obligated for support of the person
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Local Government - ✔✔Appoints board of commissioners
Executes cooperation agreement for PHA services
✔✔PHA - ✔✔Provides decent, affordable housing
Administers funding according to ACC
Establishes local policies
Complies w/fed, state, local laws; HUD regs
Affirmatively furthers fair housing
✔✔Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) - ✔✔Administers and manages the
Housing Choice
Voucher (HCV) program
✔✔HUD Field Offices - ✔✔Assume responsibility for day-to-day oversight of
program performance and compliance.
✔✔Tenant - ✔✔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
✔✔Owner - ✔✔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)
✔✔Federally Protected Classes - ✔✔1. Age
2. Color
3. National origin
4. Religion
5. Race
6. Disability
7. Family Status
✔✔Discrimination - ✔✔Being treated differently when you didn't ask to be treated
differently.
, ✔✔Reasonable Accomodation - ✔✔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.
✔✔Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) - ✔✔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.
✔✔HUD Protected Classes - ✔✔Race
Color
Sex
Age
Disability
Familial status
religion
national origin
sexual orientation
gender identity
marital status
✔✔Disability - HUD/SS Definition - ✔✔Eligibility, Allowances, and Deductions
✔✔Disability - ADA - ✔✔More broadly defined than the definition used for eligibility and
allowances of a disabled family.
✔✔Reasonable Accommodation Request - ✔✔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.
client can rent from relative only if an exception is needed as RA
✔✔Live-in Aid - ✔✔1. Essential to the care and well-being of the person
2. Not obligated for support of the person
