PUBLIC LAW 101-625—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 4211 (B) EXCEPTION.— Upon determining that a public housing agency has a special need, the Secretary may provide for not more than 50 percent of the units in a public housing project utilized under the demonstration program to be occupied by low-income families who are not very lowincome families, and the remainder of the units to be occupied by very low-income families. Such special need may include the need to ensure the successful revitalization of troubled public housing through establishing a socioeconomically mixed resident population. (3) NUMBER OF UNITS.— The number of such units made available under this subsection by a public housing agency may not exceed the number of units provided under subsection (e) to participating families. (4) RENTAL TERMS.— The rent charged any family occupying a unit made available under this subsection may not, at any time during the demonstration period, exceed the ceiling rent level determined by the public housing agency in the manner that monthly rent is determined under section 3(a)(2)(A) of the United States Housing Act of 1937. (5) LEASE.—A participating public housing agency shall enter into a lease with each family occupying a public housing unit made available under this subsection. The term of each lease shall be 1 year. Each lease shall be. renewable upon expiration for a period not to exceed 7 years. A public housing agency may extend the period as provided under subsection (j)(l). (6) VACANCY. — If, at any time, a participating public housing agency is unable to rent a unit made available under this subsection and the unit has been vacant for a period of 6 months, the agency may— (A) cancel a lease for 1 unit of housing provided under subsection (e) and recapture any operating subsidy amounts associated with the unit for use with respect to the vacant public housing unit, upon which such public housing unit shall be removed from participation in the demonstration program and made generally available for occupancy as provided under the United States Housing Act of 1937; and (B) provide the family residing in the housing unit provided under subsection (e) (from which operating subsidy amounts have been recaptured) with assistance under section 8(b) of such Act, subject to the availability of such assistance pursuant to appropriations Acts and notwithstanding any preferences for such assistance under section 8(d)(l)(A)(i) of such Act, and permit the family to remain in the unit. (g) CONTRACTS WITH PARTICIPATING FAMIUES.— (1) IN GENERAL. —Under the demonstration program, a participating public housing agency shall enter into a contract with each family that will reside in a unit of privately developed housing leased to the agency under subsection (e). Such family shall voluntarily enter into the contract and shall meet the criteria established under paragraph (2). The contract shall be made part of the lesise executed between the family and the public housing agency for such unit, shall set forth the provisions of the demonstration program, and shall specify the resources to be made available to the participating family and the responsibilities of the participating family under the program.
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