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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 125 / Friday, July 2, 2021 / Notices arrears to remove barriers to obtaining housing quickly and help reduce the spread and harm of COVID19.
Extending this waiver is necessary to remove barriers that would prevent program participants from finding housing quickly, particularly as more people find themselves with rental arrears due to COVID19.
Contact: Norm Suchar, Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7262, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 202 7084300.
Regulation: 24 CFR 578.7c2iii, and Sections 4.4 and 4.5 of the Notice CPD1808: 2019 HIC and PIT Data Collection for CoC and Emergency Solutions Grants Program.
Project/Activity: HUD is waiving 24
CFR 578.7c2iii to the extent necessary to remove some of the data collection requirements in Notice CPD
1808 as they relate to unsheltered homeless persons for CoCs that do not take advantage of the waivers of 24 CFR
578.3, 24 CFR 578.7c2 and 24 CFR
578.7c2i included in the January 7, 2021 waiver memorandum and must therefore conduct a FY2021 unsheltered homeless persons point-in-time count but follow the notification process prescribed in the January 7, 2021 waiver memorandum to use this waiver.
In Section 4.4 of Notice CPD1808, and for unsheltered persons only, HUD
is now only requiring CoCs to collect data on the total number of people sleeping in unsheltered situations on the night of each CoCs point-in-time count, with no household, demographic, or subpopulation data. The requirements of Section 4.4 of Notice CPD1808 remain unchanged for sheltered homeless persons.
In Section 4.5 of Notice CPD1808, HUD is now eliminating the requirement that CoCs report on additional homeless population data for unsheltered persons. The requirements of Section 4.5 remain unchanged for sheltered homeless persons. This waiver of the requirements at 24 CFR
578.7c2iii that requires CoCs to comply with additional requirements established by HUD in Sections 4.4 and 4.5 of Notice CPD1808 for the FY2021
biennial point-in-time count of unsheltered homeless persons is available for CoCs that complete the notification process by the January 20, 2021 deadline, but may choose to use the waiver of 24 CFR 578.7c2iii, which removes some of the data collection requirements in Notice CPD

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1808: 2019 HIC and PIT Data Collection for CoC and ESG Programs associated with the point-in-time count for unsheltered homeless persons.
Nature of Requirement: 24 CFR
578.7c2iii requires CoCs to comply with additional requirements established by HUD by Notice for the point-in-time count. HUD has established additional point-in-time count requirements through Notice CPD1808: 2019 HIC and PIT Data Collection for CoC and ESG Programs.
Sections 4.4 and 4.5 of Notice CPD18
08 include data requirements for the point-in-time count of both sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons.
Granted By: John Gibbs, Acting Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
Date Granted: January 7, 2021.
Reason Waived: Conducting a pointin-time count of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness requires countless hours of planning and volunteers. Additionally, on the night of the count, it requires people to approach people experiencing unsheltered homelessness to collect data. Because of COVID19, CoCs have been short staffed and busy preparing for and implementing measures to prevent the spread of COVID19 in their communities. Additionally, CoCs are reporting challenges in finding volunteers to survey individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness on the night of the count due to fears of COVID19. Further, CoCs are reporting challenges obtaining personal protective equipment PPE necessary to equip volunteers and people experiencing unsheltered homelessness to have the conversations necessary to collect the required data. These challenges are present in every part of the country. As of December, every single state had at least 9 new COVID cases per day per 100,000 population. For these reasons, providing waiver flexibility for the FY2021 point-in-time count for unsheltered homelessness helps prevent the spread of COVID19.
Contact: Norm Suchar, Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7262, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 202 7084300.
Regulation: 24 CFR 578.75b1.
Project/Activity: The waiver of the requirement in 24 CFR 578.75b1 that the recipient or subrecipient physically inspect each unit to assure that the unit meets HQS before providing assistance on behalf of a program participant is in
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effect until June 30, 2021 for recipients and subrecipients that are able to obtain certification from the owner that they have no reasonable basis to have knowledge that life-threatening conditions exist in the unit or units in question; and the recipient or subrecipient has written policies to physically inspect the unit within 3
months after the health officials determine special measures to prevent the spread of COVID19 are no longer necessary.
Nature of Requirement: 24 CFR
278.75b1 requires that recipients or subrecipients physically inspect each unit to assure that it meets HQS before any assistance will be provided for that unit on behalf of a program participant.
Granted By: James A. Jemison, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
Date Granted: March 31, 2021.
Reason Waived: On March 31, 2020, HUD waived the physical inspection requirement at 24 CFR 578.75b1 for 6-months so long as recipients or subrecipients were able to visually inspect the unit using technology to ensure the unit met HQS before any assistance was provided and recipients or subrecipients had written policies in place to physically reinspect the unit within 3 months after the health officials determined special measures to prevent the spread of COVID19 are no longer necessary. However, this standard still relies on program participants or landlords having the technology to carry out this virtual inspection. Additionally, recipients and subrecipients are still reporting difficulty in conducting the initial inspection of units due to social distancing guidelines.
Contact: Norm Suchar, Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7262, Washington, DC 20410, telephone number 202 7084300.
Regulation: 24 CFR 578.75b2.
Project/Activity: 24 CFR 578.75b2
requires that recipients or subrecipients are required to inspect all units supported by leasing or rental assistance funding under the CoC and YHDP
Programs at least annually during the grant period to ensure the units continue to meet HQS. This waiver is in effect until June 30, 2021.
Nature of Requirement: Recipients and subrecipients must inspect all units for which leasing or rental assistance funds are used, at least annually to ensure they continue to meet HQS.

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