Family Obligations

• The family must supply any information that the Housing Authority or HUD determines is necessary in the administration of the program, including submission of required evidence of citizenship or eligible immigration status (as provided by 24 CFR 982.551). "Information" includes any requested certification, release or other documentation.
• The family must supply any information requested by the Housing Authority or HUD for use in a regularly scheduled reexamination or interim reexamination of family income and composition in accordance with HUD requirements.
• The family must disclose and verify Social Security Numbers (as provided by 24 CFR 5.216) and must sign and submit consent forms for obtaining information in accordance with 24 CFR 5.230.
• All information supplied by the family must be true and complete.
• The family is responsible for an HQS breach caused by the family as described in 982.404(b).
• The family must allow the Housing Authority to inspect the unit at reasonable times and after reasonable notice.
• The family may not commit any serious or repeated violations of the lease.
• The family must notify the owner and, at the same time, notify the Housing Authority before the family moves out of the unit or terminates the lease upon notice to the owner.
• The family must promptly give the Housing Authority a copy of any owner eviction notice.
• The family must use the assisted unit for residence by the family. The unit must be the family's only residence.
• The Housing Authority must approve the family composition of the assisted family residing in the unit. The family must promptly inform the Housing Authority of the birth, adoption or court-awarded custody of a child. The family must request Housing Authority approval to add any other family member as an occupant of the unit.
• The family must promptly notify the Housing Authority if any family member no longer resides in the unit.
• If the Housing Authority has given approval, a foster child or a live-in aide may reside in the unit. If the family does not request approval or Housing Authority approval is denied, the family may not allow a foster child or live-in aide to reside with the assisted family.
• Members of the household may engage in legal profit-making activities in the unit, but only if such activities are incidental to primary use of the unit as a residence by members of the family.
• The family must not sublease or let the unit.
• The family must not assign the lease or transfer the unit.
• The family must supply any information or certification requested by the Housing Authority to verify that the family is living in the unit, or relating to family absence from the unit, including any Housing Authority requested information or certification on the purposes of family absences. The family must cooperate with the Housing Authority for this purpose. The family must promptly notify the Housing Authority of absence from the unit.
• The family must not own or have any interest in the unit.
• The members of the family must not commit fraud, bribery or any other corrupt or criminal act in connection with any Federal housing program.
• The household members may not engage in drug-related criminal activity or violent criminal activity or other criminal activity that threatens the health, safety or right to peaceful enjoyment of other residents and persons residing in the immediate vicinity of the premises. The members of the household must not abuse alcohol in a way that threatens the health, safety or right to peaceful enjoyment of other residents and persons residing in the immediate vicinity of the premises. An assisted family, or members of the family, may not receive Section 8 tenant-based assistance while receiving another housing subsidy for the same unit or for a different unit, under any duplicative (as determined by HUD or in accordance with HUD requirements) federal, State or local housing assistance program.

The Family May Not:

• Receive housing choice voucher program housing assistance while receiving another housing subsidy for the same unit or a different unit under any other Federal State or local housing assistance program.
• Damage the unit or premises (other than damage from ordinary wear and tear) or permit any guest to damage the unit or premises.
• Receive housing choice voucher program housing assistance while residing in a unit owned by a parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, sister or brother of any member of the family, unless the Housing Authority has determined (and has notified the owner and the family of such determination) that approving rental of the unit, notwithstanding such relationship, would provide reasonable accommodation for a family member who is a person with disabilities.