HUD HCV Guidebook § 4

SEMAP Indicator 2, Reasonable Rent, measures whether the PHA has and implements a reasonable written
method to determine and document for each unit leased that the rent to owner is reasonable based upon
current rents for comparable unassisted units. The voucher program rule requires21 that the PHA’s system for
determining comparability and reasonable rent consider factors that are important in the local rental market.
Those factors may include 1) location; 2) size; 3) type; 4) quality; 5) age; 6) amenities; 7) housing services; 8)
maintenance; and 9) utilities provided by the owner under the lease.
Each fiscal year, the PHA must22 draw a random sample of participant files to document evidence that the
PHA has followed its procedures and that each rent to owner is reasonable. This quality control review must
examine rent reasonableness documentation for each time during the fiscal year that a unit in the sample was
leased or received a rent increase. There must23 also be rent reasonableness documentation if there was a
ten percent decrease in the FMR in effect 60 days before the HAP contract anniversary for any unit.