[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 4]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR982.204]

[Page 587]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
CHAPTER IX--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, 
 
PART 982_SECTION 8 TENANT BASED ASSISTANCE: HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM--
 
               Subpart E_Admission to Tenant-Based Program
 
Sec.  982.204  Waiting list: Administration of waiting list.

    (a) Admission from waiting list. Except for special admissions, 
participants must be selected from the PHA waiting list. The PHA must 
select participants from the waiting list in accordance with admission 
policies in the PHA administrative plan.
    (b) Organization of waiting list. The PHA must maintain information 
that permits the PHA to select participants from the waiting list in 
accordance with the PHA admission policies. The waiting list must 
contain the following information for each applicant listed:
    (1) Applicant name;
    (2) Family unit size (number of bedrooms for which family qualifies 
under PHA occupancy standards);
    (3) Date and time of application;
    (4) Qualification for any local preference;
    (5) Racial or ethnic designation of the head of household.
    (c) Removing applicant names from the waiting list. (1) The PHA 
administrative plan must state PHA policy on when applicant names may be 
removed from the waiting list. The policy may provide that the PHA will 
remove names of applicants who do not respond to PHA requests for 
information or updates.
    (2) An PHA decision to withdraw from the waiting list the name of an 
applicant family that includes a person with disabilities is subject to 
reasonable accommodation in accordance with 24 CFR part 8. If the 
applicant did not respond to the PHA request for information or updates 
because of the family member's disability, the PHA must reinstate the 
applicant in the family's former position on the waiting list.
    (d) Family size. (1) The order of admission from the waiting list 
may not be based on family size, or on the family unit size for which 
the family qualifies under the PHA occupancy policy.
    (2) If the PHA does not have sufficient funds to subsidize the 
family unit size of the family at the top of the waiting list, the PHA 
may not skip the top family to admit an applicant with a smaller family 
unit size. Instead, the family at the top of the waiting list will be 
admitted when sufficient funds are available.
    (e) Funding for specified category of waiting list families. When 
HUD awards an PHA program funding for a specified category of families 
on the waiting list, the PHA must select applicant families in the 
specified category.
    (f) Number of waiting lists. A PHA must use a single waiting list 
for admission to its Section 8 tenant-based assistance program. However, 
the PHA may use a separate single waiting list for such admissions for a 
county or municipality.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under OMB control 
number 2577-0169)

[59 FR 36682, July 18, 1994, as amended at 60 FR 34717, July 3, 1995; 63 
FR 23860, Apr. 30, 1998; 64 FR 26643, May 14, 1999; 65 FR 16821, Mar. 
30, 2000]