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Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 10:50 PM
Subject: HUD agreements on REAC Guide


>The following notice was posted on the NHLP bulletin board. It looks as if
>we are back on track with the REAC Income Verification process, thanks to
>everyone's good work. If you have time in the next few days to review and
>draft comments to any portion of the Guide, please contact Catherine
Bishop.
>
>For advocates not attending the HUD meeting of June 28, 2000 (in person or
>on the phone) regarding the REAC Income Verification, a short summary of
>the agreements.
>
>Agreements reached at the HUD meeting (June 28,2000).
> 1. HUD agrees that there will be no retroactive adjustment of rents for
>tenants. The Guide in its present form (release 1.7 (June 9, 2000), HUD
>admits does not reflect that agreement.
> 2. The no retroactive adjustments will be the policy until HUD provides
>notice to all tenants nationwide of the income verification program.
> 3. HUD will suspend all current efforts, including training on the income
>verification program until the Guide is revised again. HUD will also hold
>up sending out the 154,000 letters that have not been sent out to tenants
>and POAs. (FYI 61,000 to tenants and POAs have been sent out.) HUD will
>post on its website that it is suspending the income verification program
>until further notice and will post on the website that the Guide will be
>revised and that no POA should follow older versions of it.
> 4. HUD wants comments on the Guide as it exists in the 1.7 version no
>later than Thursday, July 8
> 5. HUD has pulled chapter 3 of the Guide (Release 1.7) except for 3.1 and
>3.5 and will rewrite that chapter. It is the remainder of the Guide on
>which HUD is seeking comments.
> 6. Advocates will have an opportunity to review the Guide in its next
>version (Release 1.8) before it is posted on the HUD website. It is
>anticipated that the next release of the Guide (Release 1.8) will be
>available for review by advocates by Monday July 10.
>
>
>Catherine M. Bishop
>National Housing Law Project
>614 Grand Ave., Suite 320
>Oakland, CA 94610
>(510) 251-9400, X-105
>Fax: (510) 451-2300
>E-Mail: cbishop@...
>
>