Do the resident training sessions and public meetings required under Section VII have to be completed 45 days before the application submission date?
No. There is no cut-off date for completing the resident training sessions and public meetings other than the date the application is submitted (January 20, 2004). Section VII(A)(1) notes that HUD will evaluate the nature, extent, and quality of the resident and community outreach achieved by the time the application is submitted. However, the threshold requirement under Section VII(A)(5) focuses only on resident training sessions and public meetings held after the NOFA publication date. 31. Rating factor XI(A) prescribes a point award based on the percentage of ACC units in the “unit mix.” The section states that, “homeownership units and lease-purchase units would not be counted.” Does this mean that they are disregarded entirely in computing the fraction, or simply that homeownership units don’t count in the numerator even if they are targeted at public housing families. In other words, if a hypothetical PHA were doing 100 rental units of which 35 were ACC, plus 100 homeownership un
