Since the passage of the US Housing Act of 1937, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has mandated that housing receiving federal assistance be “safe, decent and sanitary.” Over time, the Department’s Housing Quality Standards (HQS) came to represent the guidelines for determining whether a dwelling unit met this threshold.

HQS was always a Public Housing-related rule, however. Until HUD project-based Section 8 contracts began to expire in the 1990s, the privately-owned, senior/multifamily HUD-assisted sites had little in the way of inspection requirements imposed on them from HUD. The Uniform Physical Condition Standards, initially called the Uniform Physical Inspection Standards, were established to assist HUD in determining whether a property’s HUD housing assistance payments contracts should be renewed. Today, with the advent of Management and Occupancy Reviews, compliance with UPCS takes on additional importance.

NCHM’s one day UPCS program provides more than information on the protocol elements. Through the use of case studies and participant interaction, we identify potential pitfalls that come from rushed assessments, subjective methods, or misunderstanding
of the guidelines.

This course is provided by the National Center for Housing Management and fulfills the community and housing management pillar of NCHM’s RHM certification.

Location: Boston, MA

For additional information, download the seminar description.
Register at http://www.nchm.org/