NMA's Model Administrative Plan provides you with expert guidance in a time-saving, user-friendly format, doing the heavy lifting of policy-making for you and potentially saving your agency hundreds of hours of work.

The model plan provides the basis for writing your agency’s administrative plan by recommending language for each area in which PHAs have discretion or flexibility to develop their own policies. For each policy, the accompanying instruction guide offers important points to consider and customizable policy choices so that you can choose the best policy to suit your agency’s needs. Also, the model plan cites and describes HUD regulations and other requirements in detail, which presents your agency with a solid foundation in policy-making.  

NMA's Model Administrative Plan 

Subscribing to our revision service ensures that your policy is always up to date as HUD makes regulatory changes. It can help your agency attain a thorough and accurate administrative plan that covers all the bases, making this a vital tool for managing your voucher program. Includes policies and guidance on:

• Program and plan overview topics
• Fair housing and equal opportunity
• Eligibility and denial of assistance
• Application, waiting list management, and tenant selection
• Briefings and voucher issuance
• Income and subsidy determinations
• Verification, including UIV
• Housing quality standards and rent reasonableness
• Leasing policies
• Moves and portability
• Reexaminations
• Terminations of assistance and tenancy
• Owners
• Program integrity and administration
• Special housing types
• Project-based vouchers

Click here to view a sample of the Model Admin Plan.

Click here to view a sample of the Admin Plan Guide.

Click here to view the title page and Table of Contents.


2022: For 2022, the Model Administrative Plan has been brought current with all recent HUD requirements and guidance, including the following:

• Changes to incorporate guidance from HUD’s new HCV Guidebook chapters
• Revisions regarding Notice PIH 2022-18 on the use of administrative fee funding for “other expenses”
• Updates to account for the final rule, “Streamlining and Implementation of Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act Changes to Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program,” published May 17, 2022
• Extensive revisions for the Federal Register notice implementing the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities (FSHO) amendments, published January 24, 2022
• Additions regarding Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) as specified in the revised VASH implementation notice, published in the Federal Register September 27, 2021
• Changes to Chapter 15 on Special Housing Types for Form HUD-52641, Notice PIH 2021-05 on Shared Housing, and the new HCV Guidebook, and to improve the chapter’s utility
• Updates to account for the June 2020 version of the RAD PBV Quick Reference Guide
• Clarifications regarding Social Security and SSI benefits, repayment policies, and record retention as discussed in Notice PIH 2018-18
• Other clarifications and modifications to reflect industry best practices, and to ensure that the content is user-friendly, current, and in compliance with all recent HUD regulations and guidance

2021: For 2021, the Model Administrative Plan has been brought current with all recent HUD requirements and guidance, including the following:

• The addition of a brand new Chapter 19 on Special Purpose Vouchers
• Minor updates for Notice PIH 2020-19 on what constitutes an “assisted unit” for rent reasonableness determinations
• Additions regarding EIV system searches as discussed in Notice PIH 2018-18, the March 2021 EIV FAQs, and the EIV system training conducted September 30, 2020
• Updates regarding the PHA’s ability to conduct remote video inspections (RVIs) as specified in Notice PIH 2020-31
• Modifications to account for Notice PIH 2020-32 on conducting remote informal hearings and briefings
• Removal of the Section 3 PBV owner compliance requirement per the October 2020 Section 3 final rule
• Revisions for Executive Order 13988 regarding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation  and gender identity
• Updates to include 40 CFR 745.227 as part of the required lead-based paint regulations in accordance with the EPA-updated the dust-lead clearance levels 
• Other clarifications and modifications to reflect industry best practices, and to ensure that the content is user-friendly, current, and in compliance with all recent HUD regulations and guidance

2020: For 2020, the Model Administrative Plan has been brought current with all recent HUD requirements and guidance, including the following:

• Sweeping changes to the RAD PBV chapter to account for the issuance of the most recent RAD notice, PIH 2019-23
• Changes to screening policies in light of Office of General Counsel (OGC) guidance released over the last few years
• Updates to policies regarding conducting remote informal reviews and hearings
• Updates to account for the expiration of the "old" method of calculating the Earned Income Disallowance (EID) for participants who qualified prior to May 9, 2016
• Modifications to policies regarding student financial assistance to better reflect the guidance set forth in Notice PIH 2015-21
• Clarifications on the voluntary adoption of Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs), as outlined in Notice PIH 2018-01
• Other clarifications and modifications to reflect industry best practices, and to ensure that the content is user-friendly, current, and in compliance with all HUD regulations and guidance