4-1 SUBMISSION ANNUAL ADMIN PLAN_EXHIBIT 3

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Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) \[24 CFR 982.311(d)\] When a family moves out of an assisted unit, the PHA will not continue to make any further payment to owner. If a single member household passed away, owner will keep HAP to the end of the same month. The PHA will recoup any HAP paid to owner after the family has moved out of the unit. If a participant family moves from an assisted unit with continued tenant-based assistance, the term of the assisted lease for the new assisted unit may begin during the month the family moves out of the first assisted unit. Overlapping of the last housing assistance payment (for the month when the family moves out of the old unit) and the first assistance payment for the new unit , is not considered to constitute a duplicate housing subsidy. PART II: PORTABILITY 10-II.A. OVERVIEW Within the limitations of the regulations and this plan, a participant family or an applicant family that has been issued a voucher has the right to use tenant-based voucher assistance to lease a unit anywhere in the United States providing that the unit is located within the jurisdiction of a PHA administering a tenant-based voucher program \[24 CFR 982.353(b)\]. The process by which a family obtains a voucher from one PHA and uses it to lease a unit in the jurisdiction of another initial PHA. PHA is known as portability. The first PHA is called the The second is called the receiving PHA. The receiving PHA has the option of ad absorbing the family into its own program. Under the first option, the receiving PHA bills the out of its own program funds, and the initial PHA has no further relationship with the family. The initial PHA must contact the receiving PHA via email or other confirmed delivery method to approve or deny the portability request \[Notice PIH 2012-42\]. The same PHA commonly acts as the initial PHA for some families and as the receiving PHA for others. Each role involves different responsibilities. The PHA will follow the rules and policies in section 10-II.B when it is acting as the initial PHA for a family. It will follow the rules and policies in section 10-II.C when it is acting as the receiving PHA for a family. 10-II.B. INITIAL PHA ROLE Allowable Moves under Portability A family may move with voucher assistance only to an area where there is at least one PHA administering a voucher program \[24 CFR 982.353(b)\]. If there is more than one PHA in the area, the initial PHA may choose the receiving PHA \[24 CFR 982.355(b)\]. Page 10-5 04/01/14