HOPWA Flexibilities: Virtual Inspections Webinar

HUD's Office of HIV/AIDS Housing (OHH), in collaboration with Cloudburst, hosted a webinar on conducting virtual inspections. Two memorandums, released on April 1 and May 22 of 2020, introduced a waiver providing the flexibility for HOPWA habitability standards inspections to be conducted virtually. This waiver affords flexibility to HOPWA grantees and project sponsors to visually inspect and ensure that units meet HOPWA habitability standards, using the following technology: live-video streaming, pre-recorded videos, and photographs.

What does it mean to do a virtual inspection? How do you manage different virtual methods? How does a program plan for and implement the virtual inspections flexibilities? This webinar covered important topics regarding virtual inspections and show examples of various virtual inspection methods.

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