6100.1 DCHA owns and operates rental housing properties in the District of Columbia under a program known as public housing and administers a Housing Choice Voucher Program that contracts with private landlords to provide rental housing to low and moderate income individuals and families. Households who participate in these programs pay rents as a percentage of their income known as a Total Tenant Payment.

6100.2 In order to receive public housing or Housing Choice Voucher Program assistance through DCHA, a person must file an application with the Client Placement Division in accordance with Section 6101. Once the application is filed, it will be dated and the applicant will be placed on the appropriate waiting list(s) in accordance with Section 6103.

6100.3 Periodically, as vacancies occur or are anticipated at DCHA owned and operated properties or as Housing Choice Vouchers become available, applicants at the top of the applicable waiting list(s) will interviewed in order to obtain and verify any and all information necessary to make an eligibility determination all in accordance with Sections 6106, 6107, 6108, and 6109. Eligible applicants for public housing will be placed in a selection pool and offered housing that meets their occupancy and accessibility needs as the appropriately sized units become available, see Section 6112 and 6113. Eligible applicants for the Housing Choice Voucher Program will be placed in a selection pool and offered a voucher as vouchers become available in accordance with the District of Columbia Housing Authority's Administrative Plan for the Section 8 Certificate and Housing Voucher Programs.

6100.4 The determination of eligibility and the process for the ultimate determination of ineligibility, including the informal conference and the option to request a review by an independent third party reviewer, are found in Section 6107.

6100.5 This Chapter also contains information on continued occupancy, such as recertification, adding individuals to the lease, and live-in aides in Sections 6116 and 6115.

AUTHORITY: Unless otherwise noted, the authority for this chapter is the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act, as amended, Public, No. 307, 48 Stat 930, approved June 12, 1934; Executive Order 11401, effective March 13, 1968, 33 F.R. 4559 (March 15, 1968); section 5 of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1975, 21 DCR 2793 (July 3, 1975); and part III.B.(1) of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1987, December 15, 1987.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The rules governing low income housing in the District of Columbia which implement the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act of 1934 were originally adopted by the Director of the District of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development ("DHCD") acting on behalf the National Capital Housing Authority pursuant to Reorganization Plan 3 of 1975. See Preamble to Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 33 DCR 7973 (December 26, 1986). Under Part III.B.(1) of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1987,

the National Capital Housing Authority was abolished and all of its functions under the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act of 1934 were transferred to the Department of Public and Assisted Housing (“DPAH”). DPAH operated low rent housing through the Housing Management Administration (“HMA”). D.C. Law 10-243, the “District of Columbia Housing Authority Act of 1994,” abolished DPAH and established the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) as a corporate body and legal instrumentality of the government of the District of Columbia. Pursuant to D.C. Law 10-243, all of DPAH’s functions under the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act were transferred to DCHA. D.C. Law 13-105, the “District of Columbia Housing Authority Act of 1999,” repealed D.C. Law 10-243 and re-established the DCHA as an independent authority of the District government and the successor in interest to the former housing authority. Accordingly, the acronyms “DHCD,” “DPAH” or “HMA” which appeared in chapters 60 through 65 of the July 1991 edition of this title have been substituted with “DCHA.”

SORCE: Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 46 DCR 603 (January 22, 1999), incorporating by reference the text of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published at 45 DCR 7913, 7914 (November 6, 1998); as amended by Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 5739 (July 18, 2003); as amended by Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 10347 (December 5, 2003).