(a) “Housing” shall include, but not be limited to, single occupancy residential hotels, master lease rooms, transitional housing, supportive housing programs, residential treatment facilities, shelter.
(b) There shall be no reduction in the amount of assistance for which an Applicant or Recipient is eligible because he or she shares housing with others who are not members of the Applicant’s family as defined in Section 20.7-21(e). All Applicants and Recipients shall be required to present a verifiable rent receipt. If the Applicant or Recipient is not the owner or prime lessee of the premises, a verifiable rent receipt signed by the owner or prime lessee may provide evidence of the Applicant’s or Recipient’s place of residence and monthly share of housing costs.
(c) When an Applicant or Recipient obtains rent-free housing, such housing shall be valued according to the Income-in-Kind Values Chart set forth in Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, Section 50511 (the “Income-in-Kind Chart”), rather than at fair market value. The value of the rent-free housing, which is presumed to include utilities, as determined under the Income-in-Kind Chart, shall be deducted from the maximum monthly grant amount. If the Applicant or Recipient receives rent-free housing, but pays for utilities, the Applicant or Recipient must present a verifiable bill for utilities at that address, and a verifiable receipt for payment of any portion of that utility bill.
(d) Verified payments made directly to a housing provider or landlord on behalf of an Applicant or Recipient for the entire amount of the rent and/or utilities, or rent-free housing, or housing received in exchange for work, shall be assigned an in-kind value as specified by the Income-in-Kind Chart, and that value shall be deducted from the maximum monthly grant for which that Applicant or Recipient is eligible.
(e) Housing, utilities, and/or meals provided to Applicants and Recipients who are unable to provide a verifiable rent receipt, or verifiable documentation of shared housing, or verifiable documentation of rent-free housing shall be valued as in-kind housing, utilities and/or meals as specified by the Income-In-kind Chart, and that value shall be deducted from the maximum monthly grant for which that Applicant or Recipient is eligible.
(f) Nothing in this Section 20.7-22 shall be construed as requiring an otherwise eligible Applicant or Recipient to accept housing in a facility which is either the subject of a pending nuisance abatement proceeding before a duly authorized agency or department of the City or before a court of competent jurisdiction, or which theretofore has been found to be a public nuisance pursuant to any provision of the Municipal Code by a duly authorized agency or department of the City or by a court of competent jurisdiction and which nuisance has not been abated.
(As Sec. 20.57.1, amended by Ord. 271-81, App. 5/21/81; Ord. 152-98, App. 5/8/98 Proposition N, 11/5/2002; Ord. 193-03, File No. 030871, App. 7/25/2003; redesignated as Sec. 20.7-22 and amended by Ord. 153-16, File No. 160636, App. 8/1/2016, Eff. 8/31/2016, Oper. 1/1/2017)
(Amended by Ord. 271-81, App. 5/21/81; Ord. 152-98, App. 5/8/98; repealed by Ord. 153-16, File No. 160636, App. 8/1/2016, Eff. 8/31/2016, Oper. 1/1/2017)