HUD REAFFIRMS TWO-PERSON-PER BEDROOM OCCUPANCY STANDARDIn recent testimony before the House Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. , Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Subcommittee sub·com·mit·tee n. A subordinate committee composed of members appointed from a main committee. subcommittee Noun , U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD Hud (h  d), a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. ) Secretary Andrew Cuomo Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957, in Queens, New York) is the New York State Attorney General. He was elected on November 7, 2006. Previously Cuomo was the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton between 1997 and 2001. reaffirmed the Keating memorandum, supporting a two-person per bedroom
occupancy standard. Subcommittee members were concerned that rental
apartment owners may be vulnerable to lawsuits stemming from HUD's
unclear interpretation of the law. The decision to go through rulemaking
to change the Keating memorandum, Cuomo said, created uncertainty about
occupancy standards. HUD has since gone back to the Keating memorandum,
issued on February 21, 1991, was designed to facilitate review of cases
involving occupancy policies under the Fair Housing Act.
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