HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 9.2.4 Funding and In-Kind Support for Resident Participation
The Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act provides that an eligible use of operating subsidy funds for public housing includes the cost of tenant management and tenant participation in management and policy making.67 PHAs that receive operating subsidies are required to expend, at a minimum, $25 per occupied unit each year for resident participation activities.68 HUD makes these funds available to PHAs as an add-on expense to the federal operating subsidies.