- 1. The Division shall create and maintain a statewide low-income housing database.
- 2. The database must include, without limitation, the compilation of demographic, economic and housing data from a variety of sources, including, without limitation, reports submitted pursuant to NRS 278.235 and any survey conducted by the Division, relating to the information that must be included in the report required by subsection 3.
3. On or before December 31 of each year, the Division shall:
(a) Analyze the data in the database and prepare a report which must:
- (1) Assess the attainable housing market at the city and county level, including data relating to housing units, age of housing, rental rates and rental vacancy rates, new home sales and resale of homes, new construction permits, mobile homes, lots available for mobile homes and conversions of multifamily condominiums;
- (2) Address the housing needs of various population groups in Nevada, such as households that rent, homeowners, elderly households, veterans, persons with disabilities or special needs, homeless persons, recovering persons with a substance use disorder, persons suffering from mental health ailments and victims of domestic violence, with each group distinguished to show the percentage of the population group at different income levels, and a determination of the number of households within each special-needs group experiencing housing costs greater than 30 percent of their income, overcrowding or substandard housing;
- (3) Contain an estimate of the number and condition of subsidized and other low-income housing units at the county level and the identification of any subsidized units that are forecast to convert to market-rate units within a 3-year planning period;
- (4) Provide a demographic and economic overview by local and county jurisdiction, if feasible, for the population of Nevada, including age, race and ethnicity, household size, migration, current and forecast employment, household income and a summary relating to the effects of demographics and economic factors on housing demand;
- (5) Provide the number of housing units available to a victim of domestic violence from any housing authority, as defined in NRS 315.021, and from participation in the program of housing assistance pursuant to section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437f; and
- (6) Provide the number of terminations of victims of domestic violence in this State from the program of housing assistance pursuant to section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437f.
- (b) Post the report on the Internet website of the Division.
4. If an owner of multifamily residential housing that is offered for rent or lease in this State and is:
- (a) Accessible to persons with disabilities; and
(b) Attainable housing, as defined in NRS 278.0105,
has received any loan, grant or contribution for the multifamily residential housing from the Federal Government or the State, the owner shall, not less than quarterly, report to the Division for inclusion in the database information concerning each unit of the multifamily residential housing that is available and suitable for use by a person with a disability.
- 5. The Division shall adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of subsection 4.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 539; A 2019, 830, 1419; 2025, 2785)