---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 5.111"
title: "24"
number: "5.111"
heading: "Housing counseling."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/5.111"
---

# §5.111. Housing counseling.

- (a) Any housing counseling, including homeownership counseling or rental housing counseling, as defined in [§ 5.100](/cfr/24/5.100.md), required under or provided in connection with any program administered by HUD shall be provided only by organizations and counselors certified by the Secretary under [24 CFR part 214](/cfr/24/part214.md) to provide housing counseling, consistent with [12 U.S.C. 1701x](/usc/12/1701x.md).
- (b) For purposes of this section, required under or provided in connection with any program administered by HUD means:
  - (1) Housing counseling required by statute, regulation, Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), or otherwise required by HUD;
  - (2) Housing counseling that is funded under a HUD program;
  - (3) Housing counseling that is required by a grantee or subgrantee of a HUD program as a condition of receiving assistance under the HUD program; or
  - (4) Housing counseling to which a family assisted under a HUD program is referred, by a grantee or subgrantee of the HUD program.

## Notes

### Amendments

[81 FR 90657, Dec. 14, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 794, 42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437c, 1437c-1(d), 1437d, 1437f, 1437n, 3535(d), and Sec. 327, Pub. L. 109-115, 119 Stat. 2936; 42 U.S.C. 3600-3620; 42 U.S.C. 5304(b); 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 12704-12708; E.O. 11063, 27 FR 11527, 3 CFR, 1958-1963 Comp., p. 652; E.O. 12892, 59 FR 2939, 3 CFR, 1994 Comp., p. 849.

### Authority

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 1701x; 42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437c, 1437f, 1437n, 3535(d); 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.; 34 U.S.C. 12471 et seq.; Sec. 327, Pub. L. 109-115, 119 Stat. 2396; E.O. 13279, 67 FR 77141, 3 CFR, 2002 Comp., p. 258; E.O. 13559, 75 FR 71319, 3 CFR, 2010 Comp., p. 273; E.O. 14015, 86 FR 10007, 3 CFR, 2021 Comp., p. 517.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 5202, Feb. 9, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[81 FR 90657, Dec. 14, 2016]