S. 553: HUD Health and Safety Accountability Act of 2023

Department

The term Department means the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Secretary

The term Secretary means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Form 9843 shall be restructured to include the following as graded factors:

Rebalance existing grading methodology to prioritize—

The Performance Based Contract Administrator may formally recommend abatement or cure period for properties and resident units that do not meet contractual or Federal, State, or local standards.

Owner-reported notices of local code violations, security and incident reports, and uniform physical condition standards inspection reports from the Department shall be included in the review for the category for overall assessment and score results.

During the review, Performance Based Contract Administrators may assess conditions of both occupied (with resident consent) and unoccupied units.

If a property that has not received a uniform physical condition standards inspection within 1 year receives an unsatisfactory rating on a review, a uniform physical condition standards inspection shall be automatically required within 120 days.

Allows the Secretary to allocate revenue from civil money penalties on owners as a result of housing assistance payment contract violations to fund the reviews and uniform physical condition standards inspections.

report to the appropriate Performance Based Contract Administrator and regional office of the Department within 14 days of receiving official notice—

report to the local code enforcement entity that the owner or designated property manager, as applicable, has submitted the information under paragraph (1).

reform the scoring methodology for uniform physical condition standards inspections to prioritize health and safety conditions, including interior unit conditions;

require the Secretary to verify in person that owners have taken action to address health and safety deficiencies outlined in a demand for corrective action;

requires property owners to report all deficiencies listed in a demand for corrective action to the applicable Performance Based Contract Administrator; and

allow for the Department to abate individual units assisted under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) from contractual financial payments for exigent health and safety reasons, provided that tenants of such units shall not be required to pay contributions toward rent for during the abatement periods.

For properties receiving a uniform physical condition standards inspection score of not less than 60/100 and not more than 80/100, tenant surveys shall be made available to a sampling of not less than 20 percent of residents of each structure under a housing assistance payments contract, and will be required on the next inspection, and ongoing for each inspection until the property receives a score that is more than 80/100.

For properties receiving a uniform physical condition standards inspection score of not more than 59/100, tenant surveys shall be made available for 100 percent of tenants of each structure covered under a housing assistance payments contract for the purpose of identifying consistent or persistent problems with the physical condition of the structure or performance of the manager of the structure.

The tenant surveys shall be reviewed by the Performance Based Contract Administrator and included as graded factors in uniform physical condition standards inspections, with priority provided for health and safety deficiencies.

regional office of the Department;

local field office of the Department;

public housing agency, as defined in section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)); and

Performance Based Contract Administrator.

examines the capital reserves of each structure under a housing assistance payment contract under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) with a uniform physical condition standards inspection score of 59/100 or below, including the use of funds derived from the housing assistance payment contract for purposes unrelated to the maintenance and capitalization of the structure, and the remediation of health and safety issues outlined in uniform physical condition standards inspections, demands for corrective actions, and notices of default;

includes a list of each structure under a housing assistance payment contract under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) that has received a demand for corrective action from the Department but has not complied with compliance or remediation requirements;

a list of each structure under a housing assistance payment contract under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) that has not received a uniform physical condition standards inspection according to the applicable timeline requirements under section 200.857(b) of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation) during the 5-year period preceding the date of the report, and a detailed explanation for why each such structure was not inspected in according to the applicable timelines;

a detailed list of all crimes of violence (as defined in section 16 of title 18, United States Code) that have taken place at each structure under a housing assistance payment contract under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) during the 5-year period preceding the date of the report, and recommendations for improving safety and precautionary security efforts to keep tenants safe from crimes of violence; and

a detailed list of programmatic recommendations regarding assistance provided under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), including—