---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 960.201"
title: "24"
number: "960.201"
heading: "Eligibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/960.201"
---

# §960.201. Eligibility.

- (a) **Who is eligible?**
  - (1) **Basic eligibility.** An applicant must meet all eligibility requirements in order to receive housing assistance. At a minimum, the applicant must be a family, as defined in [§ 5.403](/cfr/24/5.403.md) of this title, must be income-eligible, as described in this section, and must meet the net asset and property ownership restriction requirements in [§ 5.618](/cfr/24/5.618.md) of this title. Such eligible applicants include single persons.
  - (2) **Low income limit.** No family other than a low income family is eligible for admission to a PHA's public housing program.
- (b) **Income used for eligibility and targeting.** Family annual income (see [§ 5.609](/cfr/24/5.609.md)) is used both for determination of income eligibility under [paragraph (a)](#a) and for PHA income targeting under [§ 960.202](/cfr/24/960.202.md)
- (c) **Reporting.** The PHA must comply with HUD-prescribed reporting requirements that will permit HUD to maintain the data, as determined by HUD, necessary to monitor compliance with income eligibility and targeting requirement.

## Notes

### Amendments

[66 FR 28799, May 24, 2001, as amended at 88 FR 9670, Feb. 14, 2023]

### Source

Source: 66 FR 28799, May 24, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437c, 1437d, 1437n, 1437z-3, and 3535(d).

### Source

Source: 40 FR 33446, Aug. 8, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 49 FR 6714, Feb. 23, 1984.

### Amendments

[66 FR 28799, May 24, 2001, as amended at 88 FR 9670, Feb. 14, 2023]