QuorumFile will not print a public notice that is already late

QuorumFile prepares the HOTMA adoption record a public housing agency has to have before 1 January 2027: the discretionary choices written into the agency's own policy book, plus the paperwork proving how those choices were adopted. It is for the person at a housing authority who owns the ACOP, the Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy, and now has to amend it. The free Decision Sheet lists every choice with the paragraph of federal regulation it comes from, needs no account, and costs nothing. The drafted chapter and the whole adoption record, which is the election record, the public notice, the Resident Advisory Board memo, the hearing script, the board resolution and the dated adoption memo, is $99 once for an agency running one program and $199 for a combined agency that has to adopt into both of its policy books.

What the law hands you is a set of choices

Sections 102 and 104 of HOTMA do not only change how rent is calculated. They hand the agency decisions, and several of them are only available to an agency that has written down which way it went. Discretion you never adopted is discretion you do not have.

The catalogue holds seventeen. Four require a written policy by regulation: the definition of hardship, when families must report a change in income, the continued occupancy policy for over-income families, and whether this amendment counts as significant under criteria the agency published itself. Those fail an audit by absence, so the free sheet flags them first.

Each entry carries the regulation's own sentence, read from the eCFR title 24, 2026-07-01 edition on 28 July 2026. Nothing paraphrases a rule inside quotation marks. One file holds all of it, and the free sheet and the paid chapter both read that file, so a citation found through a search engine is by construction the citation in the document. One correction sits in there too: 24 CFR 903.21(a) still points at paragraph (r)(2) for the definition of a significant amendment, and the re-lettering moved it to (s)(2)(ii). The regulation's own cross-reference is stale.

The generator refuses more than it drafts

If the agency reports it is a Moving to Work participant or files exclusively through HUD's Family Reporting Software, both exempt under Notice PIH 2026-15, nothing generates. A board resolution reciting a deadline you are not subject to is an accusation dressed up as a service, and whether the exemption holds is a person's judgment. An unconfirmed program type stops it rather than guess between the ACOP and the voucher plan. An undecided choice stops it, because a chapter with an unmade choice in it is not a chapter. A chosen option missing its number stops it, because a policy with a blank threshold is not a policy.

The refusal that costs a month

24 CFR 903.17(b) requires the proposed policy available for inspection at the principal office and a published notice, both, not later than 45 days before the hearing. If the calendar is already inside that window, the pack does not build. It names the earliest hearing date that works instead.

That is the expensive one. The board calendar already had the hearing on it, and after adoption HUD takes up to 75 days before the amendment can be implemented, so a hearing pushed once pushes everything behind it.

The alternative is printing the notice anyway. It would look correct, and it would be non-compliant on its face.

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