D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 14, r. 14-5700
This Chapter 57 of Title 14 DCMR supplements the Section 8 Administrative Plan and sets forth rules which govern the operation of housing converted under the Rental Assistance Demonstration ("RAD") from public housing to housing funded by long-term, project-based Section 8 rental assistance contracts in the District of Columbia (hereinafter "RAD properties" or "RAD Covered projects"), under the authority of the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act of 1934 (D.C. Official Code §§ 5-101 to 5-116 (2012 Repl.)).
The rules set forth in this Chapter 57 shall reflect the requirements of Federal law as detailed by HUD in the Code of Federal Regulations; as well as the Violence Against Women Act ("VAWA"), as amended ( 42 USC §§ 13981, et seq.); the Fair Housing Act ( 42 USC §§ 3601, et seq.); and the Privacy Act of 1974 ( 5 USC § 552a); as well as the requirements of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2012, approved November 18, 2011 ( Pub. L. No. 112-55), as amended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, approved January 17, 2014 ( Pub. L. No. 113-76), the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, approved December 6, 2014 ( Pub. L. No. 113-235), and Division L, Title II, Section 237 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, enacted December 18, 2015 ( Pub. L. No. 114-113), collectively, the "RAD Statute."
In implementing these rules, DCHA is committed, wherever practicable, to ensuring that the residents' transition from public housing to project-based voucher-funded housing is as seamless as possible and that the residents of a project maint ain, to the extent practical and possible, those rights that they had as public housing residents.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 14, r. 14-5700