The Secretary shall develop and publish in the Federal Register indicators to assess the management performance of public housing agencies and resident management corporations. The indicators shall be established by rule under section 553 of title 5 . Such indicators shall enable the Secretary to evaluate the performance of public housing agencies and resident management corporations in all major areas of management operations. The Secretary shall, in particular, use the following indicators for public housing agencies, to the extent practicable:
(A) The number and percentage of vacancies within an agency’s inventory, including the progress that an agency has made within the previous 3 years to reduce such vacancies.
(B) The amount and percentage of funds provided to the public housing agency from the Capital Fund under section 1437g(d) of this title which remain unobligated by the public housing agency after 3 years.
(C) The percentage of rents uncollected.
(D) The utility consumption (with appropriate adjustments to reflect different regions and unit sizes).
(E) The average period of time that an agency requires to repair and turn-around vacant units.
(F) The proportion of maintenance work orders outstanding, including any progress that an agency has made during the preceding 3 years to reduce the period of time required to complete maintenance work orders.
(G) The percentage of units that an agency fails to inspect to ascertain maintenance or modernization needs within such period of time as the Secretary deems appropriate (with appropriate adjustments, if any, for large and small agencies).
(H) The extent to which the public housing agency— (i) coordinates, promotes, or provides effective programs and activities to promote the economic self-sufficiency of public housing residents; and (ii) provides public housing residents with opportunities for involvement in the administration of the public housing.
(I) 2 2 Another subpar. (I) is set out after subpar. (K). The extent to which the public housing agency— (i) implements effective screening and eviction policies and other anticrime strategies; and (ii) coordinates with local government officials and residents in the project and implementation of such strategies.
(J) The extent to which the public housing agency is providing acceptable basic housing conditions.
(K) Any other factors as the Secretary deems appropriate which shall not exceed the seven factors in the statute, plus an additional five. (I) 3 3 Another subpar. (I) is set out before subpar. (J). The Secretary shall: (1) administer the system of evaluating public housing agencies flexibly to ensure that such agencies are not penalized as result of circumstances beyond their control; (2) reflect in the weights assigned to the various indicators the differences in the difficulty of managing individual projects that result from their physical condition and their neighborhood environment; and (3) determine a public housing agency’s status as “troubled with respect to the program under section 1437 l 4 4 See References in Text note below. of this title” based upon factors solely related to its ability to carry out that program.