HUD-53232 Choice Neighborhoods - Certification of Severe Physical

OMB Approval No. 2577-0269
(exp. 4/30/2018)

CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS – CERTIFICATION OF SEVERE PHYSICAL DISTRESS
I hereby certify that:
1. I am a licensed engineer

architect

(check one).

2. I am not an employee of the Lead Applicant, Co-Applicant (if any), Principal Team Member (if
any), Planning Coordinator (if any) or unit of local government in which the housing project
identified below is located.
3. The public and/or assisted housing development listed below meets (in the manner described
in either subparagraph A or B below) the following definition of severe physical distress:
Requires major redesign, reconstruction or redevelopment, or partial or total demolition, to
correct serious deficiencies in the original design (including inappropriately high population
density), deferred maintenance, physical deterioration or obsolescence of major systems, and
other deficiencies in the physical plant of the project.
Check one:
A.

The development currently meets the above definition of severe physical distress;

Or
B.

The development has been legally demolished and HUD has not yet provided replacement
housing assistance, other than tenant-based assistance, for the demolished units.
However, the development satisfied the definition of severe physical distress (as defined
above) as of the day the demolition was approved by HUD.

Name: _______________________________________________
Signature: _____________________________________

__________

Date: ________________

License number: ______________________ State of Registration: _____
Lead Applicant: _____________________________________

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Name of Targeted Public and/or Assisted Housing Site(s):
_______________________

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Warning: HUD will prosecute false claims and statements. Conviction may result in the imposition
of criminal and civil penalties. (18 U.S.C. 1001, 1010, 1012, 31 U.S.C. 3729, 3802)
HUD Form 53232 (04/2015)