Earlier in May, HUD received approval from the Office of Management and Budget of the final, revised form RAD documents. HUD had previously solicited two rounds of public comment as part of the Paperwork Reduction Act process.  Ballard’s comments to HUD’s first solicitation of comments can be found here and our comments to the second round here. The final, revised form documents reflect HUD’s incorporation of many of the submitted comments – including comments received as part of the second round of public comment in October 2016.

The May 11^th RADBlast! indicates that the revised forms must be utilized for any closing package submitted to HUD on or after June 1, 2017. Many of the revised RAD documents are available in Word format on HUD’s RAD website and both the old and new forms are available on the RAD Resource Desk. For the convenience of our readers, we’ve uploaded copies of the final, revised forms for public housing RAD conversions (RAD First Component) compared to the prior form documents – and you’ll immediately notice the riders to RAD Use Agreement and the HAP Contracts have been incorporated into the body of the respected documents:

• RAD Conversion Commitment (HUD Form 52624)
• RAD Use Agreement (HUD Form 52625)
• PBRA HAP Part I (HUD Form 52620)
• PBRA HAP Part II (HUD Form 52618)
• PBV Rider to HAP (HUD Form 52621)

If you’ve been following the progression of the revised RAD documents and would like to see the changes made to the documents since they were published for comment in October 2016, please contact me (mohra@ballardspahr.com or 410.528.5337)  and I will be happy to send you comparison copies of these interim revisions.

Overall, HUD was receptive to stakeholder comments and the revised documents reflect the collective knowledge gleaned over the last five years. We look forward to continuing to advance the RAD program.