Opening a Closed Waiting List: A Practical Checklist
Waitlist openings are the highest-volume, highest-scrutiny event most housing agencies run. Here is what the federal notice rules actually require, and a phased checklist for...
What Auditors Actually Ask For After a Housing Lottery
Six requests appear again and again when an audit or monitoring review touches a housing lottery. Here is what each one means, what satisfies it, and where agencies come up short.
Why a Spreadsheet Isn't Evidence
Spreadsheets are excellent at running housing lotteries and structurally incapable of proving they ran one. Here is the specific gap, why RAND() is the wrong tool, and what to do...
How to Document a Housing Lottery So It Survives a Challenge
A housing lottery is only as strong as the record behind it. Here is what a defensible record contains, what federal rules actually require, and how to build one before anyone...
How Housing Lotteries Actually Work
A plain explanation of housing lotteries: when agencies use them, how weighting and preference tiers differ, what happens step by step, and what applicants and stakeholders should...