Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Hawaii Public Housing Authority
Chapter 2031 - SECTION 8 - HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER AND PROJECT BASED VOUCHER PROGRAM
Subchapter 8 - SECTION 8 PROJECT-BASED VOUCHER PROGRAM
Section 17-2031-92 - Eligible projects

Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 17-2031-92

Current through August, 2024

(a) The authority may attach Section 8 voucher assistance to dwelling units in newly constructed and existing structures of various types including single-family housing and multifamily structures.

(b) The authority may not attach Section 8 voucher assistance to dwelling units in the following types of housing:

(1) Owner occupied dwelling units; however, cooperatives are considered to be rental housing for purposes of this subchapter;

(2) Mobile or manufactured homes;

(3) Shared housing, nursing homes, and facilities providing continual psychiatric, medical, nursing services, board and care or intermediate care;

(4) Except for existing dwelling units, housing for which the construction or rehabilitation has started prior to execution of an agreement with the authority;

(5) Dwelling units within the grounds of penal, reformatory, medical, mental, and similar public or private institutions;

(6) Housing located in an area that has been identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as having special flood hazards unless the community in which the area is situated is participating in the National Flood Insurance Program;

(7) Housing located in the coastal barrier resources system designated under the Coastal Barrier Resources Act;

(8) College or other school dormitories;

(9) Dwelling units subsidized under other federal housing programs including:
(i) Public housing;

(ii) A dwelling unit subsidized by any other form of section 8 assistance;

(iii) A dwelling unit subsidized with any local or state rent subsidy;

(iv) A section 236 project or a dwelling unit subsidized with section 236 rental assistance payments;

(v) A Rural Development Administration section 515 project;

(vi) A dwelling unit subsidized with rental assistance payments under section 521 of the Housing Act of 1949 (a Rural Development Administration Program);

(vii) Housing assisted under former section 23 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (before amendment by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974);

(viii) A section 221(d)(3) project;

(ix) A project with a section 202 loan;

(x) A section 202 project for non-elderly persons with disabilities;

(xi) Section 202 supportive housing for the elderly;

(xii) Section 811 supportive housing for persons with disabilities;

(xiii) A section 101 rent supplement project;

(xiv) A dwelling unit subsidized with tenant-based assistance under the HOME program, or any dwelling unit with any other duplicative federal, state, or local housing subsidy, as determined by HUD.

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