Publications

HUD Brochures

These brochures provide general information about your rights when your real estate (real property) is acquired, or when you are forced to move from your home, business, or farm as a direct result of the acquisition, rehabilitation or demolition of real property for a Federally-funded project.

Acquisition

When a Public Agency Acquires Your Property
This booklet describes important features of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended (URA) and provides general information about public acquisition of real property (real estate) that should be useful to you. Most acquisitions of real property by a public agency for a Federal project or a project in which Federal funds are used are covered by the URA. If you are notified that your property will be acquired for such a project, it is important that you learn your rights under this important law. (NOTE: This publication is not applicable to voluntary acquisitions under 49 CFR 24.101(b)(1)-(5))
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Relocation

Relocation Assistance to Tenants Displaced From Their Homes
This booklet describes the relocation payments and other relocation assistance provided under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended (URA) to tenants displaced from their homes. This includes any family or individual that must move as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition or acquisition for a project in which Federal funds are used. If you are notified that you will be displaced, it is important that you do not move before you learn what you must do to receive the relocation payments and other assistance to which you are entitled.
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Relocation Assistance to Tenants Displaced From Their Homes (Section 104(d))
This booklet describes the relocation payments and other relocation assistance provided under section 104(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (section 104(d)) to eligible persons displaced from their homes. Persons eligible for assistance have the option of declining the section 104(d) assistance and receiving assistance under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (URA), if they decide that it is in their best interest.
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Relocation Assistance to Displaced Businesses, Nonprofit Organizations and Farms
This booklet describes the relocation payments and other relocation assistance provided under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended (URA) to displaced businesses, nonprofit organizations and farms. This includes any such occupant that moves from real property, or moves personal property from real property, as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition or acquisition for a Federal project or a project in which Federal funds are used.
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Relocation Assistance to Displaced Homeowner Occupants
This booklet describes the relocation payments and other relocation assistance provided under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended (URA) to most homeowners whose home is acquired by a public agency for a Federal project or a project in which Federal funds are used. To be eligible for the assistance described in this booklet, you must have owned and occupied your home for at least 180 days before the Agency offered to buy it.
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Other Publications

Developing Projects With HOME Funds: Ten Things You Need To Know About Relocation and the Uniform Act (URA) * but might have been afraid to ask
This booklet highlights ten key URA relocation requirements and concepts for nonprofit organizations and others developing HOME funded affordable housing projects. It does not contain everything you need to know about relocation, or for that matter, real estate acquisition requirements under the URA or other applicable federal requirements for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs and projects.
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Planning and Budgeting Relocation Costs for HUD-Funded Projects
This guide illustrates the process of planning for and budgeting project relocation costs in connection with a program or project funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It also provides valuable information on how to estimate the potential costs of relocation assistance and payments for projects that displace persons from their homes, businesses or farms under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act (Uniform Act or URA), and displacement of residential tenants covered under section 104(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.
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