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Housing Assistance Payments Contract U.S. Department of Housing HAP Contract and Urban Development Office of Public and Indian Housing Section 8 Tenant -Based Assistance Housing Choice Voucher Program Part B of HAP Contract- Body of Contract for such breach include recovery of overpayments, suspension of housing assistance payments, the Section 8 voucher program. .abatement or other reduction of housing assistance 1. Purpose payments, termination of housing assistance a. This is a HAP contract between the PHA and the payments, and termination of the HAP contract The owner. The HAP contract is entered to provide PHA may not exercise such remedies against the assistance for the family under the Section 8 owner because of an HQS breach for which the voucher program (see HUD program regulations at family is responsible, and that is not caused by the 24 Code of Federal Reguli tions Part 982). owner. b. The HAP contract only applies to the household and d. The PHA shall not make any housing assistance contract unit specified in Part A of the HAP payments if the contract unit does not meet the contract HQS, unless the owner corrects the defect within the C. During the HAP contract term, the PHA will pay period specified by the PHA and the PHA verifies housing assistance payments to the owner in the correction. If a defect is life threatening, the accordance with the HAP contract owner must correct the defect within no more than d. The family will reside in the contract unit with 24 horns. For other defects, the owner must correct assistance under the Section 8 voucher program. The the defect within the period specified by the PHA_ housing assistance payments by the PHA assist the C. The PHA may inspect the contract unit and premises tenant to lease the contract unit from the owner for at such times as the PHA determines necessary, to occupancy by the family. ensure that the nut is in accordance with the HQS. the locality by the owner and that is generally t The PHA most notify the owner of any HQS defects 2. Lease of Contract Unit shown by the inspection. a The owner has leased the contract unit to the tenant g• The owner must provide all housing services as d agreed to in the lease. WE occupancy by the famdy with assistance un a the Section 8 voucher program. 4. Term of HAP Contract b. The PHA has approved leasing of the unit in accordance with requirements of the Section 8 a Relation to lease term. The tam of the HAP voucher program. contract begins on the first day of the initial tam of o. The lease for the contract unit must include word- the lease, and terminates on the last day of the term for -word all provisions of the tenancy addendum of the lease (including the initial lease term and any required by HUD (Part C of the HAP contract). extensions). d. The owner certifies that b. When HAP contract terminates. (1) The owner and the tenant have entered into a (1) The HAP contract terminates automatically if lease of the contract unit that includes all the lease is terminated by the owner or the provisions of the tenancy addendum. tenant - (2) The ]ease is in a standard form that is used in (2) The PHA may terminate program assistance the locality by the owner and that is generally for the family for any grounds authorized in used for other unassisted tenants in the accordance with HUD requirements. If the premises. PHA terminates program assistance for the (3) The lease is consistent with State and local family, the HAP contract terminates law. antnmancelly. e. The owner is responsible for screening the family's (3) If the family moves from the contract unit, the behavior or suitability for tenancy. The PHA is not HAP contract terminates automatically. responsible for such screening. The PHA has no (4) The HAP contract terminates automatically 180 liability or responsibility to the owner or oilier calendar days after the last housing assistance persons for the family's behavior or the family's payment to the owner. conduct in tenancy. (5) The PHA may terminate the HAP contract if the PHA determines, in accordance with HUD 3. Maintenance, Utilities, and Other Services requirements, that available program finding is a The owner must maintain the contract unit and not sufficient to support continued assistance premises in accordance with the housing quality for famili es in the progam. standards (HQS). (6) The HAP contract terminates automatically upon the b. The owner must provide all utilities needed to death of a single member household, including single comply with the HQS. member households with alive -in aide. C. If the owner does not maintain the contract unit in accordance with the HQS, or fails to provide all utilities needed to comply with the HQS, the FHA may exercise any available remedies. PHA remedies form HUD -62641 (812009) Previous editions are obsolete Page 4 of 12 ref Handbook 7420.8