Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) apply for funding to assist low-income families to lease housing. One of the programs through which PHAs provide housing assistance is the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program, a tenant-based rental assistance program. This program operates by providing vouchers that cover a portion of the contract rent for a unit. Some PHAs project-base their vouchers (the rental assistance is tied to the unit, instead of the family). Project-based vouchers (PBVs) are becoming a larger percentage of PHAs overall HCV portfolios. HUD currently collects information on individual participants in the HCV program who are in PBV units and Project certificate (PBC) housing through the PIC system. In addition, HUD collects aggregate information on the total number of PBVs under contract at the PHA level but does not collect information at the project level.
HUD increased the number of respondents from 668 respondents, in the original PRA published in 2019, to 819 respondents because additional Public Housing Authorities have project based vouchers in their portfolio and would be required to respond to this data collation.
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
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(ii) Use of information;
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