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Administrative Plan 4/1/16 <br /> <br />Page 3-22 <br />Screening for Suitability as a Tenant [24 CFR 982.307] <br />SAHA has no liability or responsibility to the owner for the family’s behavior or suitability for <br />tenancy. SAHA has the authority to conduct additional screening to determine whether an <br />applicant is likely to be a suitable tenant. <br />SAHA Policy <br />SAHA will not conduct additional screening to determine an applicant family’s <br />suitability for tenancy. <br />The owner is responsible for screening and selection of the family to occupy the owner’s unit. <br />SAHA must inform the owner that screening and selection for tenancy is the responsibility of the <br />owner. An owner may consider a family’s history with respect to factors such as: payment of <br />rent and utilities, caring for a unit and premises, respecting the rights of other residents to the <br />peaceful enjoyment of their housing, criminal activity that is a threat to the health, safety or <br />property of others, and compliance with other essential conditions of tenancy. <br />HUD requires SAHA to provide prospective owners with the family's current and prior address <br />(as shown in SAHA records) and the name and address (if known) of the owner at the family's <br />current and prior addresses. HUD permits SAHA to provide owners with additional information, <br />as long as families are notified that the information will be provided, and the same type of <br />information is provided to all owners. <br />SAHA may not disclose to the owner any confidential information provided to SAHA by the <br />family in response to a request for documentation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual <br />assault, or stalking except at the written request or with the written consent of the individual <br />providing the documentation <br />[24 CFR 5.2007(a)(4)]. <br />SAHA Policy <br />SAHA will inform owners of their responsibility to screen prospective tenants. If <br />requested SAHA will provide owners with the last known owner’s name and phone <br />number, at the time of the initial HQS inspection or before. SAHA will not provide any <br />additional information to the owner, such as tenancy history or criminal history. <br /> <br />3-III.E. CRITERIA FOR DECIDING TO DENY ASSISTANCE <br />Evidence [24 CFR 982.553(c)] <br />SAHA Policy <br />SAHA will use the concept of the preponderance of the evidence as the standard for <br />making all admission decisions. <br />Preponderance of the evidence is defined as evidence which is of greater weight or more <br />convincing than the evidence which is offered in opposition to it; that is, evidence which <br />as a whole shows that the fact sought to be proved is more probable than not. <br />Preponderance of the evidence may not be determined by the number of witnesses, but by <br />the greater weight of all evidence. <br /> <br />3-92