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Section 8 Management Assessment Program Indicators Indicator #1 Selection from Waiting List: 15/15 points This indicator shows whether SAHA has written policies in its administrative plan for selecting applicants from the waiting list and whether SAHA follows these policies when selecting applicants for admission from the waiting list. Indicator #2 Rent Reasonableness: 15/20 points This indicator shows whether SAHA has and implements a reasonable written method to determine and document for each unit leased that the rent to owner is reasonable based on current rents for comparable unassisted units at the time of initial leasing; if there is any increase in the rent to owner; and at the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) contract anniversary if there is a 5 percent decrease in the published fair market rent (FMR) in effect 60 days before the HAP contract anniversary. Indicator #3 Determination of Adjusted Income: 15/20 points This indicator shows whether, at the time of admission and annual reexamination, SAHA verifies and correctly determines adjusted annual income for each assisted family and, where the family is responsible for utilities under the lease, SAHA uses the appropriate utility allowances for the unit leased in determining the gross rent. Indicator #4 Utility Allowance Schedule: 5/5 points This indicator shows whether SAHA maintains an up-to-date utility allowance schedule. Indicator #5 Housing Quality Standards (HQS) Quality Control Inspections: 5/5 points This indicator shows whether a SAHA supervisor or other qualified person reinspects a sample of units under contract during SAHA’s fiscal year, which meets the minimum sample size, for quality control of HQS inspections. Indicator #6 HQS Enforcement: 10/10 points This indicator shows whether, following each HQS inspection of a unit under contract where the unit fails to meet HQS, any cited life-threatening HQS deficiencies are corrected within 24 hours from the inspection and all other cited HQS deficiencies are corrected within no more than 30 calendar days from the inspection or any SAHA- approved extension. Indicator #7 Expanding Housing Opportunities: 5/5 points This indicator shows whether SAHA has adopted and implemented a written policy to encourage participation by owners of units located outside areas of poverty or minority concentration; informs voucher holders of the full range of areas where they may lease units both inside and outside SAHA’s jurisdiction; and supplies a list of landlords or other parties who are willing to lease units or help families find units, including units outside areas of poverty or minority concentration. EXHIBIT 1 5-3