Housing authorities and HUD-funded contractors

Which HUD-funded project is it?

Check whether HUD Section 3 applies to your project and what to report: total labor hours, Section 3 worker hours and targeted worker hours. Free.

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ePlan fills in

  • HUD funding on the project
  • Area income limits
  • Metro area or county

How it works

Section 3 labor-hour worksheet, from one answer

  1. Enter the project, its HUD funding and your hour counts.
  2. ePlan checks the $200,000 threshold and totals the three hour counts.
  3. Read the free worksheet. Need the project's environmental review? Start a HUD Part 58 draft.

What you get

Section 3 labor-hour worksheet and 1 more document

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the HUD environmental review door.

The first draft

Section 3 labor-hour worksheet (free)

  1. Project, funding and threshold check
  2. Total labor hours
  3. Section 3 worker hours
  4. Targeted Section 3 worker hours
  5. Benchmark comparison
  6. Prioritization efforts and records

Modeled on: 24 CFR 75.3, 75.13 and 75.25

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HUD Part 58 environmental review record

  1. Project and level of review
  2. Related laws checklist
  3. Findings and notices

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

$200,000

in HUD housing and community development assistance makes a construction project a Section 3 project
Source: 24 CFR 75.3, eCFR

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Questions

Section 3 labor-hour worksheet: what people ask

When does Section 3 apply?

To public housing financial assistance, and to housing rehab, housing construction and other public construction projects with more than $200,000 in HUD housing and community development assistance. The threshold is $100,000 for Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes money.

Source: ecfr.gov

What do we report?

Three numbers for each Section 3 project: total labor hours worked, labor hours by Section 3 workers, and labor hours by Targeted Section 3 workers. Totals include hours by the contractors and subcontractors you must report.

Source: ecfr.gov

Who is a Section 3 worker?

A worker who now meets, or met when hired in the past five years, one of these: income for the previous or annualized year below the HUD income limit, employment by a Section 3 business concern, or YouthBuild participation.

Source: ecfr.gov

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