Specifications include, but are not limited to: Organizations selected as sub-recipients to operate a tenant based rental assistance program will be expected to comply with the requirements in the HOME Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) Program Standards for operating the program. These include, in part: • Marketing the program. • Conducting initial pre-screening, intake, and income eligibility determinations of applicants. • Determining appropriate unit size, rental subsidies and household contributions for program participants. • Ensuring potential rental units meet Section 8 Housing Quality Standards. • Ensuring potential rental units constructed before 1978 are inspected for leadbased paint hazards. If deteriorated paint is found, ensuring it is properly remediated in compliance with the Lead Safe Housing Rule. • Ensuring assisted rental units are rented for reasonable amount, compared to rents charged for comparable unassisted units. • Reviewing the leases for all assisted units and ensuring they meet the requirements of §92.209. • Managing and maintaining housing assistance contracts with participating landlords, including making timely rent payments. Objectives To promote access to rental housing for low-income households through the provision of rental subsidy assistance. Needs 1. Projects must assist low-and moderate-income persons in the participating municipalities of the Dane County Urban County Consortium. 2. It is expected that projects will meet community needs documented through “hard” data sources. 3. Any additional funding needed to make the project viable must be secured in order for a contract to be executed. 4. Projects must be shovel-ready, meaning the project will begin in the year in which the contract is awarded. 5. Projects must be delivered in a cost effective manner with measurable performance outcomes. 6. It is expected that all or a portion of funds will be targeted to areas of greatest need.