[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 4]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 24CFR791.404]



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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

 

 CHAPTER VII--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 

 DEVELOPMENT (HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 

                                PROGRAMS)

 

PART 791_ALLOCATIONS OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE FUNDS--Table of Contents

 

     Subpart D_Allocation of Budget Authority for Housing Assistance

 

Sec.  791.404  Field Office allocation planning.



    (a) General objective. The allocation planning process should 

provide for the equitable distribution of available budget authority, 

consistent with the relative housing needs of each allocation area 

within the field office jurisdiction.

    (b) Establishing allocation areas. Allocation areas, consisting of 

one or more counties or independent cities, shall be established by the 

field office in accordance with the following criteria:

    (1) Each allocation shall be to the smallest practicable area, but 

of sufficient size so that at least three eligible entities are viable 

competitors for funds in the allocation area, and so that all applicable 

statutory requirements can be met. (It is expected that in many 

instances individual MSAs will be established as metropolitan allocation 

areas.) For the section 202 program for the elderly, the allocation area 

must include sufficient units to promote a meaningful competition among 

disparate types of providers of such housing (e.g., local as well as 

national sponsors, minority as well as non-minority sponsors). The 

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sentence shall not apply to projects acquired from the Resolution Trust 

Corporation under section 21A(c) of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act.

    (2) Each allocation area shall also be of sufficient size, in terms 

of population and housing need, that the amount of budget authority 

being allocated to the area will support at least one feasible program 

or project.

    (3) In establishing allocation areas, counties and independent 

cities within MSAs should not be combined with counties that are not in 

MSAs.

    (c) Determining the amount of budget authority. Where the field 

office establishes more than one allocation area, it shall determine the 

amount of budget authority to be allocated to each allocation area, 

based upon a housing needs percentage which represents the needs of that 

area relative to the field office jurisdiction. For each program, a 

composite housing needs percentage developed under Sec.  791.402 for 

those counties and independent cities comprising the allocation area 

shall be aggregated into allocation area totals.

    (d) Planning for the allocation. The field office should develop an 

allocation plan which reflects the amount of budget authority determined 

for each allocation area in paragraph (c). The plan should include a map 

or maps clearly showing the allocation areas within the field office 

jurisdiction. The relative share of budget authority by individual 

program type need not be the same for each allocation area, so long as 

the total amount of budget authority made available to the allocation 

area is not significantly reduced.



[61 FR 10849, Mar. 15, 1996, as amended at 64 FR 26640, May 14, 1999]