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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 125 / Friday, July 2, 2021 / Notices Voucher program requirements. It is not possible to use two different utility allowances to set the rent for a single unit and it is administratively burdensome to require a project owner establish and implement different utility allowances for HOME-assisted units and non-HOME assisted units in a project.
Contact: Virginia Sardone, Director, Office of Affordable Housing Programs, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7160, Washington, DC
20410, telephone 202 7082864.
Regulation: 24 CFR 92.252d1
Utility Allowance Requirements.
Project/Activity: Oakland County, Michigan requested a waiver of 24 CFR
92.252d1 to allow use of the utility allowance established by the local public housing agency PHA for a HOME-assisted projectsCarriage Place Apartments.
Nature of Requirement: The regulation at 24 CFR 92.252d1
requires participating jurisdictions to establish maximum monthly allowances for utilities and services excluding telephone and update the allowances annually. However, participating jurisdictions are not permitted to use the utility allowance established by the local public housing authority for HOME-assisted rental projects for which HOME funds were committed on or after August 23, 2013.
Granted By: John Gibbs, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, D.
Date Granted: January 14, 2021.
Reason Waived: The HOME
requirements for establishing a utility allowances conflict with Project-Based Voucher program requirements. It is not possible to use two different utility allowances to set the rent for a single unit and it is administratively burdensome to require a project owner establish and implement different utility allowances for HOME-assisted units and non-HOME assisted units in a project.
Contact: Virginia Sardone, Director, Office of Affordable Housing Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7160, Washington, DC 20410, telephone 202 7082684.
Regulation: 24 CFR 92.251.
Project/Activity: Any housing units located in the areas under the major disaster declaration of FEMADR4586
the declared-disaster areas, including the state participating jurisdiction, which were damaged by the disaster and to which HOME funds are committed within two years from the date of approval of the waiver.
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Nature of Requirement: The regulation at 24 CFR 92.251 requires that housing assisted with HOME funds meet property standards based on the activity undertaken, and state and local standards and codes or model codes for rehabilitation and new construction.
Property standard requirements are waived for repair of properties damaged by the disaster. The lead housing safety regulations established in 24 CFR part 35 are not waived.
Granted By: James Arthur Jemison II, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
Date Granted: February 26, 2021.
Reason Waived: Several Texas CPD
grantees were affected by severe winter weather that hit the state of Texas beginning February 11, 2021. As a result of substantial property loss and destruction, many individuals and families residing in the declareddisaster areas were displaced from their homes, including beneficiaries of various CPD programs, and families eligible to receive CPD program assistance. Some individuals and families continued to live in homes with habitability deficits, particularly related to potable water. The President issued a disaster declaration under title IV of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act for the Texas severe winter weather on February 19, 2021, FEMADR4586, and further amended it through February 25, 2021.
The waiver is required to allow grantees to expedite recovery efforts for lowand moderate-income residents affected by the property loss and destruction resulting from this event.
Contact: Virginia Sardone, Director, Office of Affordable Housing Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7160, Washington, DC 20410, telephone 202 7082684.
Regulation: 24 CFR 92.203a1 and 2.
Project/Activity: Participating jurisdictions located in the counties included in the declared-disaster areas in FEMADR4586 that are assisting families displaced by the disaster as documented by FEMA registration whose income documentation was destroyed or made inaccessible by the disaster.
Nature of Requirement: The regulation at 24 CFR 92.203a1 and 2
require initial income determinations for HOME beneficiaries by examining source documents covering the most recent two months. Many families whose housing was destroyed or damaged by the disaster will not have any documentation of income and will
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not be able to qualify for HOME
assistance if the requirement remains effective.
Granted By: James Arthur Jemison II, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
Date Granted: February 26, 2021.
Reason Waived: Several Texas CPD
grantees were affected by severe winter weather that hit the state beginning February 11, 2021. As a result of substantial property loss and destruction, many individuals and families residing in the declareddisaster areas were displaced from their homes, including beneficiaries of various CPD programs, and families eligible to receive CPD program assistance. Some individuals and families continued to live in homes with habitability deficits, particularly related to potable water. The President issued a disaster declaration under title IV of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act for the Texas severe winter weather on February 19, 2021 FEMADR4586, and further amended it through February 25, 2021.
The waiver is required to allow grantees to expedite recovery efforts for lowand moderate-income residents affected by the property loss and destruction resulting from this event.
Contact: Virginia Sardone, Director, Office of Affordable Housing Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 7160, Washington, DC 20410, telephone 202 7082684.
Regulation: 24 CFR 93.151c.
Project/Activity: Families displaced by the disaster as documented by FEMA registration whose income documentation was destroyed or made inaccessible by the disaster.
Nature of Requirement: The regulation at 24 CFR 93.151c requires initial income documentations for HTF
beneficiaries by examining source documentation for at least two months.
Many families whose homes were destroyed or damaged by the disaster will not have any documentation of income and will not be able to qualify for HTF assistance if the requirement remains effective.
Granted By: James Arthur Jemison II, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
Date Granted: February 26, 2021.
Reason Waived: Several Texas CPD
grantees were affected by severe winter weather that hit the state beginning February 11, 2021. As a result of substantial property loss and destruction, many individuals and families residing in the declareddisaster areas were displaced from their
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