HUD HCV Guidebook § 4.2.2

A participant family is a family that has leased up in a unit              Selecting the Receiving PHA
with the Housing Choice Voucher program. The date the
family becomes a participant family is the effective date of
the first HAP Contact executed by the PHA for the family. 43            Initial PHAs may determine which
Income eligibility is not redetermined for participant families,        receiving PHA serves the area to
that means, the participant family’s income does not need to
                                                                        which the family is moving by:
be within the receiving PHA’s income limits in order to qualify
for portability.44                                                           •   Searching in the PHA
                                                                                 contact list on HUD’s