[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: 24CFR983.254]

[Page 670]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
CHAPTER IX--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, 
 
PART 983_PROJECT-BASED VOUCHER (PBV) PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart F_Occupancy
 
Sec.  983.254  Vacancies.

    (a) Filling vacant units. (1) The owner must promptly notify the PHA 
of any vacancy or expected vacancy in a contract unit. After receiving 
the owner notice, the PHA must make every reasonable effort to refer 
promptly a sufficient number of families for the owner to fill such 
vacancies.
    (2) The owner must lease vacant contract units only to eligible 
families on the PHA waiting list referred by the PHA.
    (3) The PHA and the owner must make reasonable good faith efforts to 
minimize the likelihood and length of any vacancy.
    (b) Reducing number of contract units. If any contract units have 
been vacant for a period of 120 or more days since owner notice of 
vacancy (and notwithstanding the reasonable good faith efforts of the 
PHA to fill such vacancies), the PHA may give notice to the owner 
amending the HAP contract to reduce the number of contract units by 
subtracting the number of contract units (by number of bedrooms) that 
have been vacant for such period.