Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a revision to the notice period it will provide to Public Housing Authority (PHA) managers and private owners of HUD-subsidized apartment buildings. Specifically, HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC), the HUD agency tasked with inspecting PHAs and privately-owned HUD-subsidized buildings, will now only provide a 14 calendar days’ notice prior to conducting a building inspection.

Under current procedures, REAC and its contract inspectors may provide as much as 120 days’ notice prior to a building inspection. However, HUD is revising that procedure in order to ensure that building administrators and owners are maintaining the facilities year-round. As HUD stated in its official press release, the current notice period “allows certain public housing authorities and property owners to undertake cosmetic, ‘just-in-time’ repairs to their properties rather than adopting year-round maintenance practices.” The change will be effective 30 days from today. 

HUD’s press release on the change can be found here. The official notice governing the procedure change can be found here.