ACOP - San Antonio Housing Authority

5. Demolition, Disposition, Revitalization, or Rehabilitation Transfers
a. The PHA will relocate a family when the unit or site in which the family lives is
undergoing major rehabilitation that requires the unit to be vacant, or the unit
is being disposed of or demolished.
b. The PHA’s relocation plan may or may not require transferring affected
families to other available public housing units.
c. If the relocation plan calls for transferring public housing families to other
public housing units, affected families will be placed on the transfer list.
d. In cases of revitalization or rehabilitation, the family may be offered a
temporary relocation if allowed under Relocation Act provisions, and may be
allowed to return to their unit, depending on contractual and legal obligations,
once revitalization or rehabilitation is complete. .
6. Over-income & Lease Purchase Residents-The PHA will relocate a family from a mixed
finance tax credit unit, and/or a Lease purchase unit if the family fails to meet the tax
credit requirements, or is unable to secure financing for purchase of the unit.
D. ADVERSE ACTION [24 CFR 966.4(e)(8)(i)]
1. A PHA required transfer is an adverse action. As an adverse action, the transfer
is subject to the requirements regarding notices of adverse actions.
2. If the family requests a grievance hearing within the required timeframe, the PHA
may not take action on the transfer until the conclusion of the grievance process.
E. COST OF THE TRANSFER
1. The PHA will bear the reasonable costs of all accessibility transfers and transfers due to
emergency maintenance conditions that the PHA requires, and transfers for demolition,
disposition, revitalization or rehabilitation, and as determined by court rulings, transfers to
satisfy legal judgments.
2. The PHA will pay the reasonable cost of all accessibility transfers when done as a
reasonable accommodation, up to the costs outlined in the agency’s reasonable moving
allowance.
a. Transfers requested or required by the PHA will be paid for or made by the PHA.
b. The reasonable costs of transfers include the cost of packing, moving, and
unloading.
c. The PHA will reimburse the family for eligible out-pocket moving expenses up to the
PHA’s established moving allowance.
F. RESIDENT REQUESTED TRANSFERS
1. Transfers requested by the tenant are considered optional for the tenant.
2. The PHA will consider the following as high priority transfer requests:
a. When a transfer is needed to alleviate verified medical problems of a serious or lifethreatening
nature
b. When there has been a verified threat of physical harm or criminal activity.
c. When a family requests a transfer as a reasonable accommodation.
d. Incentive Transfers (Type I) to new or recently modernized or acquired units, and/or
scattered sites on a non-discriminatory basis to residents with good rental histories
who request to move.
3. The PHA will consider the following as regular priority transfer requests:
a. Correct occupancy standards (voluntary if the family is between the minimum and
maximum occupancy standard but the family requests a transfer, e.g. to permit older
children of opposite sexes to have separate bedrooms);
b. Incentive Transfers (Type II) to developments with current racial or ethnic
deconcentration, or to deconcentrate locations where residents with higher income
predominate, or higher income residents to sites where lower incomes predominate.
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