In 1998, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) began doing physical inspections for all Section 8 housing, public housing, HUD-insured multifamily housing, and other HUD assisted housing (collectively, HUD housing) using a defined uniform physical condition standards to ensure that the housing is decent, safe, sanitary and in good repair. This was the first effort at centralized collection of standardized electronic reporting under the auspices of the HUD Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC)’s physical assessment subsystem. Learn more.
