<searchTitle>Request for Comments on Ending “Hold Harmless” Policy in Calculating Income Limits Under Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937; Federal Register Vol. 74, Issue </searchTitle>
<granuleClass>NOTICE</granuleClass>
<accessId>E9-22077</accessId>
<agency order="1">DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT</agency>
<commentDate>2009-10-14</commentDate>
<departmentDoc>Docket No. FR-5323-N-01</departmentDoc>
<billingCode>4210-67-P</billingCode>
<frDocNumber>E9-22077</frDocNumber>
<action>Notice.</action>
<summary>For Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, HUD has continued its policy of maintaining Section 8 income limits at the previously published level in cases where HUD's estimate of area median family income (MFI) or housing cost adjustment data, or changes in calculation methodology, would lead to a lower income limit than was previously published. The policy was adopted to ensure that Multifamily Tax Subsidy Projects (MTSPs) would not be subject to income-limit and rent decreases when the data underlying income limits otherwise indicated decreases. The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-289) changed the tax code to protect existing MTSPs from decreases in income limits and rents, should HUD decide to discontinue this policy. However, maintaining artificially high income limits may have an adverse impact on other federal programs. HUD is requesting public comment on whether HUD should discontinue the practice with respect to Section 8 income limits such that income limits generally would be allowed to decrease.</summary>
<dates>Comments Due Date: October 14, 2009.</dates>
<contact>For technical information on the methodology used to develop income limits and median family income estimates, please call the HUD USER information line at 800-245-2691 or access the information on the HUD Web site, http://www.huduser.org/ datasets/il.html. That Web site has current and historical income limits. Furthermore, HUD maintains an interactive on-line documentation system for income limits and median family income estimates. The documentation system will provide interested users with their income limits prior to the application of the hold-harmless policy in areas currently designated as "historical exception" areas. The FY 2009 documentation system may be accessed at http://www.huduser.org/</contact>
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