**Public reporting burden** for this collection of information is
estimated to average 1 hour per response. This includes the time for
collecting, reviewing, and reporting the data. Information provided is
to be used by owners and management agents administering Section 8
project-based assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42
U.S.C. 1437) to request a tenant to certify that the individual is a
victim of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking. The
information is subject to the confidentiality requirements of the HUD
Reform Legislation. This agency may not collect this information, and
you are not required to complete this form unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.

**Purpose of Form:** The Violence Against Women and Justice Department
Reauthorization Act of 2005 protects qualified tenants and family
members of tenants who are victims of domestic violence, dating
violence, or stalking (collectively "domestic violence") from being
evicted or terminated from housing assistance based on acts of such
violence against them.

**Use of Form:** If you have been a victim of domestic violence, you or
a family member on your behalf must complete and submit this
certification form, or submit the information described below under
"Alternate Documentation," which may be provided in lieu of the
certification form, within 14 business days of receiving the written
request for this certification form by the owner or management agent.
The certification form or alternate documentation must be returned to
the person and the address specified in the written request for the
certification form. If the requested certification form or the
information that may be provided in lieu of the certification form is
not received by the 14th business day or any extension of the date
provided by the owner or management agent, none of the protections
afforded to victims of domestic violence under the Section 8
project-based assistance program will apply. Distribution or issuance of
this form does not serve as a written request for certification.

**Alternate Documentation:** In lieu of this certification form (or in
addition to it), the following documentation may be provided:

\(1\) A federal, state, tribal, territorial, or local police or court
record; or

\(2\) Documentation signed by an employee, agent or volunteer of a
victim service provider, an attorney or medical professional, from whom
the victim has sought assistance in addressing the domestic violence,
dating violence or stalking, or the effects of abuse, in which the
professional attests under penalty of perjury (28 U.S.C. 1746) to the
professional's belief that the incident(s) in question are bona fide
incidents of abuse, and the victim has signed or attested to the
documentation.

**[TO BE COMPLETED BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE VICTIM OF DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE:]{.underline}**

**1. Date written request is received from owner or management agent:
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**2. Name of victim:
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**3. Your name (if different):
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**4. Name(s) of other family members listed on the lease:
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**5. Name of the abuser:
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**6. Relationship of the abuser to the victim:
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**7. Date of incident:
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**8. Time of incident:
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**9. Location of incident:
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**{Page two must be completed and attached to this form.}**

**Description of Incident:**

This is to certify that the information provided is true and correct,
and that the individual named above in Item 2 is a victim of domestic
violence, dating violence, or stalking. The incident(s) in question is a
bona fide incident(s) of such actual or threatened abuse. I acknowledge
that submission of false information could jeopardize program
eligibility and could be the basis for termination of Section 8
project-based assistance or eviction from assisted property.

Signature Executed on (Date)

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1437f(ee)(2)(A), all information provided to an
owner or management agent related to the incident(s) of domestic
violence, dating violence or stalking, including the fact that an
individual is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence or stalking
shall be retained in confidence by the owner or management agent and
shall neither be entered into any shared database nor provided to any
related entity, except to the extent that such disclosure is:

\(1\) Requested or consented to by the victim in writing;

\(2\) Required for use in an eviction proceeding or termination of
assistance; or

\(3\) Otherwise required by applicable law