DDATA SET: HUD USER provides researchers with access to original electronic data sets generated by PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUD median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population. DDA: See DIFFICULT DEVELOPMENT AREA. DEBT SERVICE: Required payments for principal and interest made with respect to a mortgage secured by housing. DECENNIAL CENSUS: The Decennial Census, undertaken by the U.S. Census Bureau, occurs every 10 years, in years ending in zero, to count the population and housing units for the entire United States. Its primary purpose is to provide the population counts that determine how seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are apportioned. DEED-IN-LIEU: To avoid foreclosure ("in-lieu" of foreclosure), a deed is given to the lender to fulfill the obligation to repay the debt. This process does not allow the borrower to remain in the house, but helps avoid the time, effort, and costs associated with foreclosure. DEFAULT:A failure to comply to make any payment or to perform any other obligation under the mortgage, and such failure continues for a period of 30 days. DENSITY: The average number of dwelling units or persons per gross acre of land, usually expressed in units per acre, excluding any area of a street bordering the outside perimeter of a development site. DIFFICULT DEVELOPMENT AREA (DDA): Any area designated by the HUD Secretary as an area that has high construction, land, and utility costs relative to the area median gross income. DILAPIDATED HOUSING: A housing unit that does not provide safe and adequate shelter, and in its present condition endangers the health, safety or well-being of the occupants. Such a housing unit shall have one or more critical defects, or a combination of intermediate defects in sufficient number or extent to require considerable repair or rebuilding. Such defects may involve original construction, or they may result from continued neglect or lack of repair or from serious damage to the structure. DISABILITY: A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such for an individual. DISASTER HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (DHAP-Katrina/Rita): a temporary rental assistance program designed to help families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. DISCRIMINATORY EFFECT: A practice has a discriminatory effect where it actually or predictably results in a disparate impact on a group of persons or creates, increases, reinforces, or perpetuates segregated housing patterns because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin. DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM: Provides complete documentation of the development of the income limits and median family incomes (since 2007), as well as fair market rents (since 2005), for any area of the country. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse, by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction receiving grant monies, or by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction. DWELLING: [A]ny building, structure or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families, and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure or portion thereof.
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