[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR511.1]

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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
  CHAPTER V--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING AND 
        DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
PART 511_RENTAL REHABILITATON GRANT PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 511.1  Applicability and purpose.


    (a) This part implements the Rental Rehabilitation Program (RRP) 
contained in section 17 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as 
amended (the ``Act''). As more fully described in this part, the Act 
authorizes the Secetary of Housing and Urban Development to make rental 
rehabilitation

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grants to help support the rehabilitation of eligible real property to 
be used for primarily residential rental purposes, and to pay for 
eligible administrative costs of grantees (not to exceed 10 percent of a 
grantee's initial grant obligation for Fiscal Year 1988 and later 
years). Grants are made on a formula basis to cities having populations 
of 50,000 or more, urban counties, States, and qualifying consortia of 
geographically proximate units of general local government. States may 
use all or part of their grants to carry out their own rental 
rehabilitation programs or to distribute them to eligible units of 
general local government. HUD will administer a State's grant if the 
State chooses not to do so.
    (b) The purpose of the Program is to help provide affordable, 
standard permanent housing for low-income families and to increase the 
availability of housing units for use by housing voucher and certificate 
holders under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937. 
Subject to rules for the tenant-based Certificate Program (24 CFR part 
882) and for the Housing Voucher Program (24 CFR part 887), certificates 
and housing vouchers must be allocated to ensure that sufficient 
resources are available for families in Rental Rehabilitation projects 
who are required to move out of their units because of the physical 
rehabilitation activities or because of overcrowding; and at the PHA's 
discretion, to assist eligible families whose post-rehabilitation rents 
would be greater than 30 percent of their adjusted incomes.