Affordable Housing Specialist

1 month ago


Newport Beach, United States UDR Inc Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

UDR, Inc. and its affiliated companies are adding an Affordable Housing Specialist to our operations team in Southern, CA. This position supports multiple properties and offices out of Eight 80, our apartment community located in Newport Beach, CA.

GENERAL SUMMARY OF DUTIES: Responsible for maintaining compliance, monitoring and management of Affordable Housing Programs, including processing new applicants, renewals, maintaining waitlists, and ensuring compliance with local and state regulations for multiple assigned properties.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge on all Affordable Housing Program regulations
  • Update the application renewal and affordable unit leasing documentation as necessary
  • Process applications for Affordable Housing and Section 8 applicants including credit and resident certification
  • Approve qualified applications
  • Maintain participant files to ensure completeness of required documentation and verifications
  • Educate and advise residents regarding program issues
  • Conduct program orientations for participants as needed
  • Keep up to date on affordable housing policy changes and confirm that the community(s) follows local and state rules and regulations
  • Work with respective monitoring agents and program administrators to ensure that rents and income levels are being set at their maximum allowable levels
  • Review utility allowance schedules to confirm that the Company is in compliance and recognizing the greatest possible net rents
  • Provide superior customer service to internal and external customer
  • Prepare and confirm required data entry to update month-end reporting
  • Investigate and take appropriate action for fraud, unreported income, etc.
  • Ensure that actions taken are correct and timely
  • Provide backup to sales as needed to assist and interact with prospects by answering questions, lease terms, and the local area
  • Provide assistance for the community(s) as needed with reports and tasks associated with the operation of the community and actions to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and company policies
  • Provide assistance to Business Manager team to diligently collect rent, utility payments, and fees to reduce delinquency and bad debt write offs. And perform administrative tasks associated with site operations including, accounting and financial reporting, reconciling resident accounts, and performing other clerical tasks as needed
  • Assist with resident communication as needed
  • Assist other communities, as necessary or as requested
  • Create, update, and conduct periodic Affordable Housing Program training for UDR associates
  • Complete internal training for market-rate: One-Site – Navigation and Prospects, move-ins and rent, and move-outs
  • Complete internal training for affordable housing: One-Site – Navigation of Receipts and Waitlists, Certifications and Charges
  • Perform other duties as assigned or as necessary

Experience, Knowledge and Skills:

  • Experience in residential properties, property management or related business operation is required
  • Experience working with federal housing programs, financial eligibility determination, other affordable housing programs
  • Administrative experience
  • Section 8 experience
  • OneSite software experience is a plus

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree and equivalent experience preferred

Career Development and Advancement

We offer ongoing education opportunities to encourage the skillset development of our employees and have a validated culture of enhancing the growth and advancement of their individual career goals. We believe our employees are the organization's most important asset.

Exceptional Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefit package, Company matched 401(k), vacation and personal time (up to 10 vacation days, 6 sick days, 4 personal days, and 2 floating holidays per year) plus company observed holidays, discounts to live in our best-in-class communities, tuition reimbursement, company sponsored events, community service days, and our annual President's Club held in Las Vegas, honoring our associates for their exceptional customer service and operational excellence.

Benefits Offered:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision Plans
  • Medical Flexible Spending Account
  • Dependent Care Spending Account
  • Lifestyle Spending Account
  • Supplemental Term Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Cancer Insurance
  • Supplemental Short-Term Disability Insurance / AD&D Insurance
  • Voluntary Long Term Care Insurance
  • 401(k) Plan with company match

Hourly Range:

$25/hr. – $27/hr., depends on experience

About UDR, Inc.

UDR, Inc., an S&P500 company, is one of the nation's largest owners and managers of residential apartment communities. Become a part of a company that is the industry leader of transformational change and operational innovation

UDR Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

UDR is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

UDR is committed to providing and maintaining a diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment with equitable access and opportunity for associates to participate, grow, and reach their full potential.



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