(a) A certificate of occupancy may not be issued for a dwelling unit permitted because of an SAH unit approved by the director until a certificate of occupancy has been issued for the SAH unit; however, these certificates of occupancy may be issued simultaneously.
(b) An SAH unit originally leased to a qualified lower income family shall automatically lose its status as an SAH unit if the family no longer qualifies as a lower income family at the end of the primary term of the lease. When this occurs, the next vacated dwelling unit must be offered for lease as an SAH unit until the required number of SAH units are provided. This provision may not be used as grounds for evicting a previously qualified lower income family from a unit if the family wishes to pay the market rate for that unit.
(c) A lease for an SAH unit may not exceed a term of one year.
(d) The director of housing and neighborhood services shall randomly, regularly, and periodically select a sample of families occupying SAH units for the purpose of income verification. Any information received pursuant to this subsection shall remain confidential and shall be used only for the purpose of verifying income in order to determine eligibility for occupation of the SAH units. All prospective tenants of an SAH unit must agree to provide or to allow the director to obtain sufficient information to enable income verification as contemplated in this subsection as a condition to leasing the unit. A person commits an offense if he or she, with the intent to lease or occupy an SAH unit, misrepresents the gross annual family income of its tenant or prospective tenant to the lessor or the city of Dallas with knowledge of its falsity. A person who commits the offense described in this subsection shall be guilty of a separate offense for each day or portion of a day that the unit is leased or occupied based on the misrepresentation.
(e) Annual report. Each owner of property subject to an approved affordable housing instrument shall submit a written report on June 30 of each year to the director that demonstrates compliance with the affordable housing instrument and this division. Each report must include:
(1) a list of SAH units currently leased, including the names and annual family incomes of the tenants;
(2) a list of the SAH units currently offered for lease;
(3) the total number of dwelling units (SAH or otherwise) currently offered for lease;
(4) a list of all lower income families currently seeking to lease one or more dwelling units on the property; and
(5) any other reasonable and pertinent information the director determines to be necessary to demonstrate compliance with the affordable housing instrument and this division.
(f) Family equivalence. The families that reside in SAH units must have similar numbers and ages of members as the other families on that lot. (Ord. 21663)