Chapter 1 - San Diego Housing Commission

Glossary
SUBSIDIZED PROJECT A multi-family housing project (with the exception of a project owned by a
cooperative housing mortgage corporation or association) which receives the benefit of subsidy in the
form of:
- Below-market interest rates pursuant to Section 221(d)(3) and (5) or interest reduction payments
pursuant to Section 236 of the National Housing Act; or
- Rent supplement payments under Section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965;
or
- Direct loans pursuant to Section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959; or
- Payments under the Section 23 Housing Assistance Payments Program pursuant to Section 23 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 prior to amendment by the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974;
- Payments under the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program pursuant to Section 8 of the
United States Housing Act after amendment by the Housing and Community Development Act
unless the project is owned by a Public Housing Agency;
- A Public Housing Project.
SUBSIDY STANDARDS Standards established by a PHA to determine the appropriate number of
bedrooms and amount of subsidy for families of different sizes and compositions.
SUSPENSION Stopping the clock on the term of a family’s voucher, for such period as determined by
the PHA, from the time when the family submits a request for PHA approval to lease a unit, until the
time when the PHA approves or denies the request.
TENANCY ADDENDUM The lease language required by HUD contained In the lease between the
tenant and the owner.
TENANT The person or a person (other than a live-in-aide) who executes the lease as lessee of the
dwelling unit.
TENANT RENT The amount payable monthly by the family as rent to the unit owner.
TOTAL TENANT PAYMENT (TTP) The total amount the HUD rent formula requires the tenant to pay
toward rent and utilities.
TRANSITIONAL BED ASSISTANCE Housing subsidy paid for transitional or shelter beds.
TRIENNIAL FAMILIES Families is which 100% percent of adults are, 55 years or older, disabled, or a
full-time student (18 to 23 years old) not including the head of household, spouse or co-head. The
family may have any kind of income. (e.g. wages, SSI, SSA, VA, Retirement)
TRIENNIAL REEXAMINATION Triennial families will have their income, assets and household
composition fully recertified every three years instead of annually. In the interim years, a COLA
recertification will be completed, in which social security and Veterans Benefits will be adjusted by the
published cost of living adjustment. Payment standards and utility allowance will be updated.
UNIT Residential space for the private use of a family.
UTILITIES Utilities means water, electricity, gas, other heating, refrigeration, cooking fuels, trash
collection and sewage services. Telephone service is not included as a utility.
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