HUD Handbook 4350.3 § 3-10

A.       Key Requirement

                  Assisted tenants must have only one residence and receive assistance only in
                  that unit. This rule is meant to ensure that the government pays assistance on
                  only one unit for a family and provides assistance to as many eligible families as
                  possible with available funding.

         B.       Sole Residence Requirement

                  1.      A family is eligible for assistance only if the unit will be the family’s only
                          residence.

2.      The owner must not provide assistance to applicants who will maintain a
                          residence in addition to the HUD-assisted unit.

                  3.      *Owners must use the EIV Existing Tenant Search when screening
                          applicants in order to search for applicants who may be receiving
                          assistance at another location. See Chapter 9, Enterprise Income
                          Verification (EIV).*

         C.       Prohibition Against Double Subsidies

                  Under no circumstances may any tenant benefit from more than one of the
                  following subsidies: Rent Supplement, RAP, Section 202 PAC, Section 202
                  PRAC or Section 811 PRAC, project-based Section 8 housing assistance,
                  including Section 202/8, *or any Public and Indian Housing (PIH) rental
                  assistance programs.*

1.      Tenants must not receive assistance for two units at the same time.

                  2.      Tenants must not benefit from Housing Choice Voucher assistance in a
                          unit already assisted through project-based Section 8, Rent Supplement,
                          RAP, Section 202 PAC or Section 202 PRAC and Section 811 PRAC.

                  3.      This prohibition does not prevent a person who is currently receiving
                          assistance from applying for an assisted unit in another property. The
                          assisted tenancy in the unit being vacated must end the day before the
                          subsidy begins in the new unit.

                  4.      * Owners must use the EIV Multiple Subsidy Report to search for tenants
                          who may be receiving assistance at more than one location or under more
                          than one HUD rental assistance program. See Chapter 9, Enterprise
                          Income Verification (EIV),*