A professional who directs operations of housing project to provide low-income or military families, welfare recipients, or other eligible individuals with furnished or unfurnished housing in single or multiunit dwellings or house trailers. Responsibilities include:

• Develops and implements plans for administration of housing project and procedures for making housing assignments.
• Reviews occupancy reports to ensure that applications, selection of tenants and assignment of dwelling units are in accordance with rules and regulations.
• Conducts surveys of local rental rates and participates in setting of rental rates according to occupants' income and accommodation requirements.
• Prepares operational budget requests and receives accounts for and disburses funds.
• Conducts analyses of management and maintenance costs to determine areas where cost reductions can be effected.
• Plans long range schedule of major repairs on units, such as reroofing or painting exterior of dwellings.
• Studies housing demands occupancy and turnover rates and accommodation requirements of applicants to recommend policy and physical requirement changes.
• Promotes harmonious relations among tenants, housing project personnel, and persons of the community.
• Directs work activities of office and clerical staff in processing applications, collecting of rents and accounting for monies collected, and assigns building and grounds maintenance personnel to specific duties.
• Requisitions furnishings and furniture for housing units.
• May direct activities of other management personnel in housing project having commercial shops, concessions, theater, library, and recreational facilities.
• May refer applicants to private housing if all available units are occupied or if accommodation requirements are inadequate.