HCV SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION 2026 EXAM Q&A STUDY
SHEET
◉Lease. Answer: 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.
◉HUD Notices. Answer: Which of the following has a shelf life
(usually one year unless extended)?
◉Administrative Plan. Answer: 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
◉Voucher/HUD-52646. Answer: 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
◉Tenant-based Subsidy. Answer: Type of assistance where families
choose their units.
◉HAP Contract/HUD-52641. Answer: 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
EVALUATION 2026 EXAM Q&A STUDY
SHEET
◉Lease. Answer: 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.
◉HUD Notices. Answer: Which of the following has a shelf life
(usually one year unless extended)?
◉Administrative Plan. Answer: 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
◉Voucher/HUD-52646. Answer: 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
◉Tenant-based Subsidy. Answer: Type of assistance where families
choose their units.
◉HAP Contract/HUD-52641. Answer: 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
