NMA’s HQS Quick Check Guide is a handy, easy-to-use tool detailing what conditions would pass, pass with comment, or fail inspection according to housing quality standards (HQS).

Condensing vast acceptability criteria and sometimes tricky fail conditions into a brief, streamlined format, the guide provides inspectors with the ability to quickly identify various conditions. In addition, the guide is fully illustrated with color photos, and gloss-coated clipboard-sized pages allow inspectors to make notes directly on the guide with a grease pencil while in the field—notes that will assist them in completing inspection reports later.

The HQS Quick Check Guide can be used as a support to or in conjunction with the HQS 52580 long or short forms, but it is not only useful for inspectors—PHAs can also use this valuable resource as a training tool for property owners to improve pass rates on units.

View a sample from the HQS Quick Check Guide.