Notice2025-00095
60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration Evaluation; OMB Control No.: 2528-0339
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January 7, 2025
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Housing and Urban Development Department
Abstract
HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1183-1185]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00095]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-7090-N-10]
60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Stepped and
Tiered Rent Demonstration Evaluation; OMB Control No.: 2528-0339
AGENCY: Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment
from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information.
The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: March 10, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are to submit comments regarding this
proposal.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection can be submitted within 60 days of publication of this
notice to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. Interested persons are also invited to
submit comments regarding this proposal by name and/or OMB Control
Number and can be sent to: Anna Guido, Reports Management Officer, REE,
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room
8210, Washington, DC 20410-5000 or email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b7e7d6c7d2c5c0d8c5dce5d2d3c2d4c3ded8d9f6d4c3f8d1d1ded4d2f7dfc2d399d0d8c1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="81d1e0f1e4f3f6eef3ead3e4e5f4e2f5e8eeefc0e2f5cee7e7e8e2e4c1e9f4e5afe6eef7">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anna Guido, Reports Management
Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email; <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#10517e7e713e403e576579747f507865743e777f66"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="68290606094638462f1d010c0728001d0c460f071e">[email protected]</span></a>; telephone (202)
402-5535 (this is not a toll-free number). HUD welcomes and is prepared
to receive calls from individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as
well as individuals with speech or communication disabilities. To learn
more about how to make an accessible telephone call, please visit
<a href="https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs">https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs</a>.
Copies of available documents submitted to OMB may be obtained from
Ms. Guido.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the information collection described in
Section A.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Stepped and Tiered Rent
Demonstration Evaluation, Phase 2.
OMB Approval Number: 2528-0339.
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Type of Request: Revision of currently approved collection.
Form Number: N/A.
Description of the need for the information and proposed use: HUD
has selected 10 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to participate in the
second cohort of the Moving to Work (MTW) Expansion, Stepped and Tiered
Rent Demonstration (STRD). These PHAs are implementing an alternative
rent policy (a stepped rent or tiered rent) that intends to reduce PHA
administrative burden and increase economic self-sufficiency of
assisted households. Five PHAs are implementing a stepped rent and five
PHAs are implementing a tiered rent. HUD's Office of Policy Development
and Research (PD&R) is evaluating the impacts of those alternative rent
policies, using a randomized controlled trial. The evaluation will rely
on data from a variety of sources, including new information collection
efforts proposed in this Notice. HUD contracted with MDRC to conduct
the first phase of the evaluation, including random assignment,
baseline data collection, and monitoring PHA implementation, and has
now contracted with MDRC to conduct the second phase of the evaluation,
including further administrative baseline data collection and follow-up
data collection for the first three years of the six-year
demonstration.
This Federal Register notice is seeking to extend and build upon
previously approved data collection activities. For the second phase
(Phase 2) of the evaluation, additional interviews with PHA staff will
be conducted to understand their experiences with the alternative rent
policies and costs associated with administering the alternative rent
rules, and a 30-month follow-up survey will be fielded to study
participants to assess the effects of the alternative rent policies on
key outcomes that cannot be captured with administrative records,
including material hardship. In addition to collecting these data, the
STRD project will continue monitoring the implementation of the
alternative rent rules and collecting PHA records for this purpose.
Data collected is being used to estimate the effects of the alternative
rent rules on employment, earnings, housing subsidy, and other key
outcomes.
Member of Affected Public: Public housing agency administrators/
staff managing or implementing the new rent policy and participants
enrolled in the STRD study.
Estimated Number of Respondents: Interviews with PHA staff will
have an estimated 120 respondents. Additional data collection from PHA
staff will have an estimated 40 respondents. The survey of study
participants will be fielded to 8,000 individuals and the response rate
is expected to be 60%, so the number of estimated respondents is 4,800.
Estimated Time per Response: The participant survey will take
approximately 15 minutes to complete. PHA staff implementation
interviews and the staff cost interviews (to administer the staff
questionnaire) will take approximately 90 minutes each to complete. The
cost study checklist to be completed by PHA staff will take
approximately 6 minutes to complete.
Frequency of Response: The survey, cost study checklist, PHA staff
implementation interviews, and PHA staff cost interviews will each be
collected once.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: The total annual burden for
this information collection is 84.25 hrs.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: The total annual cost for this
information collection is $19,973.96. The average hourly wage of study
participants is estimated from state minimum wages for the 10 states
where the participating housing agencies are located ($10.72). The
assumed hourly wage rate for PHA staff is based on the May 2023
employment and wages from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (<a href="http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm">http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm</a>). The hourly rate used for PHA program Director/Managers
is $48.77, is equivalent to Social/Community Service Manager (Local
Government) under SOC code 11-9151. The hourly rate used for PHA
Housing Specialists is $28.50, is equivalent to the Community and
Social Service Specialist (Local Government) under SOC code 21-1099. To
estimate the cost burden for the Cost Study Data collection (interviews
and cost study checklist), we assume 2 managers and 2 specialists will
be interviewed, for an average hourly rate of $38.64.
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Average
Median hourly (median)
Respondent Occupation SOC code wage rate hourly wage
rate
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Study Participant..................... Various (assume state NA NA $10.72
minimum wage).
PHA Director/Manager.................. Social/Community Service 11-9151 $48.77 48.77
Manager (Local
Government).
PHA Housing Specialist................ Community and Social 21-1099 28.50 28.50
Service Specialist
(Local Government).
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Source: Occupational Employment Statistics, accessed online May 2023, at <a href="http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm">http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm</a>.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: The data collection is conducted under title 12,
United States Code, section 1701z and Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44, U.S.C., Chapter 35.
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Annual Hourly cost
Information Collection Number of Frequency of Responses per Burden hour burden per Annual cost
respondents response annum per response hours response
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30-Month Survey of Study Participants......... 4,800 1 1 0.25 1,200 $10.72 $12,864
PHA Director/Manager Implementation Interview. 40 1 1 1.5 60 48.77 2,926
PHA Housing Specialist Implementation 40 1 40 1.5 60 28.50 1,710
Interview....................................
PHA Staff Cost Study Interview................ 40 1 40 1.5 60 38.64 2,318.40
PHA Staff Cost Study Checklist................ 40 1 40 .1 4 38.64 154.56
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Total..................................... 5,000 .............. .............. .............. 1,384 ........... 19,973.96
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B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and
affected parties concerning the collection of information described in
Section A on the following:
(1) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond; including through the use of appropriate
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to submit comments in response to
these questions.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3507.
Todd M. Richardson,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
[FR Doc. 2025-00095 Filed 1-6-25; 8:45 am]
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