UCLA Academic Personnel Office

The faculty housing allowance program provides special housing allowance for up to $53,300 per selected eligible faculty member for housing related costs, including down payment assistance or to help ameliorate the high costs of conventional loans through a special supplement to the monthly income during the first years of employment. Eligibility is extended to newly recruited full-time University appointees who are members of the Academic Senate. Contact Sheila Wallace in the Academic Personnel Office at (310) 825-1197 for UCLA campus policy and procedures.

April 9, 1999

DEANS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS and DIRECTORS

Re: Housing Allowance Program, APM 190 Appendix E

Effective immediately, the new maximum housing allowance is $50,000 per recipient under the Salary Differential Housing Allowance Program for faculty. The new maximum will continue to be indexed annually in accordance with the faculty salary scale increase, and will be supported from campus funds. In addition, exceptions to the new maximum will continue to require approval by the Provost and Senior Vice President—Academic Affairs.

Current University guidelines do not require repayment of housing allowances from recipients in the event the faculty member chooses to leave the University after a short period of employment. Campuses are hereby authorized to establish repayment conditions on a local basis under the Salary Differential Housing Allowance Program for faculty.

Agreements should be in writing and campuses may establish repayment conditions uniformly or on a case-by-case basis. For example, a campus may choose to structure repayment conditions with the understanding that receipt of the housing allowance at the $50,000 level is contingent on the faculty member making a commitment to remain at the campus for a minimum period of five years. If the faculty member leaves before the expiration of the five-year period, a portion of the allowance would be repaid to the campus at a rate of $10,000 per year of the unfulfilled commitment. Alternatively, a campus may choose to structure repayment conditions such that the number of years of commitment is less than five years or that the repayment rate is graduated depending on the years of service to the University. Ultimately, campuses have the flexibility to tailor the repayment conditions to the individual faculty member receiving the housing allowance.

Please update your APMs as soon as possible. The online version of the Salary Differential Housing Allowance Program is also available on the web at:

http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/s1-190f.html

Sincerely,

Norman Abrams

Vice Chancellor

Academic Personnel

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