SAC MISSION

The Special Applications Center (SAC) supports the nation’s public housing authorities in their desire to provide a better housing stock for their residents by means of technical assistance and approvals of repositioning plans through demolition and/or disposition.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The SAC is within the Office of Public and Indian Housing and reviews, processes, and approves non-funded, non-competitive applications related to Demolition/Disposition, Eminent Domain, Homeownership, and Conversion.

The SAC also provides technical assistance and training to local Field Offices of Public Housing (Field Office), as well as to Public Housing Agencies (PHA), residents, and industry groups, with regard to the completion of these non-funded, non-competitive applications and the monitoring of activities related to these applications.

HISTORY

The SAC was established to centralize and standardize the review and approval of non-funded, noncompetitive applications. The SAC helps to eliminate duplication of effort across offices and allows a specialized, dedicated staff to concentrate on the review and approval of these applications using consistent and predictable procedures and requirements. Technical assistance provided by the SAC facilitates the preparation of complete and approvable applications by PHAs, further expediting the process.

In addition to improving the application process, this centralized responsibility for application review and approval is intended to alleviate the burden previously imposed on Field Offices by removing the need for those offices to be knowledgeable on a wide variety of application types, allowing them to concentrate on other services provided to HUD business partners and public housing residents.

Prior to establishment of the SAC, responsibility for review and approval of these applications was distributed between HUD Headquarters and various Field Offices that acted as processing centers. In some instances, review and approval of these applications was so time consuming that the various offices were unable to devote the time and effort required to perform a complete and thorough review. Furthermore, the distributed responsibility for review and approval of these applications did not foster standard and consistent procedures and requirements regarding either the format or content of the applications.
 

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