Buildings

HUD requires that you assign each of your agency’s units not to a building, but to a building “entrance.” Building entrances are based on postal addresses.

Note: HUD’s “building entrances” do not correspond to physical entrances (doors into a building). They correspond directly to postal addresses.

If a particular building has only one postal address for the entire building, it will have only one HUD building entrance. You will number it entrance “1” and assign all units in the building to that entrance. For most agencies, this will be the case for most of your buildings. If a particular building has more than one postal address, each postal address will be a different HUD building entrance. You will number the entrances sequentially and assign each unit in the building to its respective entrance. As mentioned above, you should use entrance number “1” if a building has only one entrance. If a building has more than one entrance, you have more flexibility in formatting your entrance numbers. Each entrance “number” can contain numbers and/or letters and can be up to three characters long.

You must maintain one building entrance record in Tenant Accounts Receivable for each of your building entrances. After you set up your building entrance records, you then assign each unit to an entrance when adding your units. See "Adding New Units"

Setting Up Building Entrances

Maintaining Building Entrances