Code of Massachusetts Regulations
760 CMR - HOUSING AND LIVABLE COMMUNITIES, EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF
Title 760 CMR 53.00 - Alternative Housing Voucher Program
Section 53.03 - Eligibility and Qualification for Program Participation

Universal Citation: 760 MA Code of Regs 760.53

Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024

Eligibility of All Handicapped Households:

(1) An eligible Household is one which includes a Non-Elderly Handicapped Person who has not attained the age of 60, and which is financially eligible pursuant to 760 CMR 5.00

(2) A qualified Household is one in which every household member has been qualified in accordance with 760 CMR 5.07. All members of an applicant household who are not current residents of c. 667 housing, shall be screened in order to determine whether they are qualified.

(3) In order to remain eligible for the Program a Participant must be a tenant in good standing. A tenant shall be deemed to be in good standing unless the tenant:

(a) Owes back rent to an LHA and has not entered into a repayment agreement, or has failed to stay current with a repayment agreement, or

(b) Owes damages or vacancy loss payments to an LHA and has not entered into a repayment agreement, or has failed to stay current with a repayment agreement, or

(c) Has failed to comply with all the terms of any repayment agreement, including repeated late payments or partial payments without prior LHA approval, or

(d) Has committed fraud against the Program, or any other state-aided housing program within the last five years, or

(e) Has been evicted for good cause from a Contract Unit, or

(f) Has committed a civil or criminal violation of the state Civil Rights Act or has committed a crime of physical violence to persons, or other criminal acts including all drug related crimes, which if repeated in housing, would interfere with the health, safety, security, or peaceful enjoyment of management or other tenants, the landlord or other persons lawfully on the premises or would adversely affect the physical environment of the other tenants, the landlord or other persons lawfully on the premises.

(g) Has failed to comply with the terms of the Program voucher.

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