scope:

Program scope. The PHMAP reflects only one aspect of PHA operations, i.e., the results of its management performance in specific program areas. The PHMAP should not be viewed by PHAs, the Department or other interested parties as an all-inclusive and encompassing view of overall PHA operations. When viewing overall PHA operations, other criteria, including but not limited to, the quality of a PHA's housing stock, compliance issues, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity issues, Board knowledge and oversight of PHA operation, etc., even though not covered under the PHMAP, are necessary in order to determine the adequacy of overall PHA operations. The PHMAP can never be designed to be the sole method of viewing a PHA's overall operations. A PHA should not manipulate the PHMAP system in the short-term in order to achieve a higher PHMAP score, thereby delaying or negating long-term improvement. Making a correct and viable long-term decision (doing the right thing) may hurt a PHA in the short-term (i.e., lower PHMAP score), but will result in improved housing stock and better overall management of a PHA over the long-term and a higher sustainable PHMAP score.

Purpose. This part establishes the Public Housing Management Assessment Program (PHMAP) to implement and augment section 6(j) of the 1937 Act. PHMAP provides policies and procedures to identify public housing agency (PHA), resident management corporation (RMC), and alternative management entity (AME) management capabilities and deficiencies, recognize high-performing PHAs, designate criteria for defining troubled PHAs and PHAs that are troubled with respect to the program under section 14 (Public Housing Modernization Program), and improve the management practices of troubled PHAs and mod-troubled PHAs.