Correction Timelines: 24 Hours, 30 Days, 60 Days

Every NSPIRE deficiency carries a severity — life-threatening, severe, moderate, or low — and the severity sets the correction clock. The clock starts when the owner or housing authority is notified of the inspection results.

Multifamily and public housing (the REAC clock):

• Life-threatening — 24 hours. See the 24-hour list.

• Severe — 24 hours. On the multifamily clock, severe health-and-safety deficiencies carry the same 24-hour correction window as life-threatening ones.

• Moderate — 30 days.

• Low — 60 days.

Voucher units (HCV / NSPIRE-V): life-threatening items are 24 hours, the same as everywhere in HUD. Other failed items are generally corrected within 30 days, with the housing authority setting the exact re-inspection schedule under its administrative plan — so a voucher landlord's real deadline for a non-emergency item is the one on the PHA's notice.

Two habits beat every argument about deadlines: fix life-safety items the moment your own walk finds them — before any inspector does — and photograph every correction with a timestamp. The Fixing Fails forum is where members compare how their teams run the 24-hour clock.

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