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42 U.S.C. § 11361 — Housing affordability strategy
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Assistance may be made under this subchapter only if the grantee certifies that it is following—
(1) a consolidated plan which has been approved by the Secretary in accordance with [section 12705 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section12705&num=0&edition=prelim) (referred to in such section as a “comprehensive housing affordability strategy”), or
(2) a comprehensive homeless assistance plan which was approved by the Secretary during the 180-day period beginning on November 28, 1990, or during such longer period as may be prescribed by the Secretary in any case for good cause.
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Assistance may be made under this subchapter only if the grantee certifies that it is following—
(1) a consolidated plan which has been approved by the Secretary in accordance with [section 12705 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section12705&num=0&edition=prelim) (referred to in such section as a “comprehensive housing affordability strategy”), or
(2) a comprehensive homeless assistance plan which was approved by the Secretary during the 180-day period beginning on November 28, 1990, or during such longer period as may be prescribed by the Secretary in any case for good cause.
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**(a) In general** For purposes of this chapter, the terms “homeless”, “homeless individual”, and “homeless person” means— 11 So in original. Probably should be “mean—”.
(1) an individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence;
(2) an individual or family with a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, including a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train station, airport, or camping ground;
(3) an individual or family living in a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements (including hotels and motels paid for by Federal, State, or local government programs for low-income individuals or by charitable organizations, congregate shelters, and transitional housing);
(4) an individual who resided in a shelter or place not meant for human habitation and who is exiting an institution where he or she temporarily resided;
(5) an individual or family who—
(A) will imminently lose their housing, including housing they own, rent, or live in without paying rent, are sharing with others, and rooms in hotels or motels not paid for by Federal, State, or local government programs for low-income individuals or by charitable organizations, as evidenced by—
(i) a court order resulting from an eviction action that notifies the individual or family that they must leave within 14 days;
(ii) the individual or family having a primary nighttime residence that is a room in a hotel or motel and where they lack the resources necessary to reside there for more than 14 days; or
(iii) credible evidence indicating that the owner or renter of the housing will not allow the individ
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**(a) In general** The Secretary shall provide assistance directly to a jurisdiction only if—
(1) the jurisdiction submits to the Secretary a comprehensive housing affordability strategy (hereafter in this section referred to as the “housing strategy”);
(2) the jurisdiction submits annual updates of the housing strategy; and
(3) the housing strategy, and any annual update of such strategy, is approved by the Secretary.
The Secretary shall establish such dates and manner for the submission and approval of housing strategies under this section that the Secretary determines will facilitate orderly program management by jurisdictions and provide for timely investment or other use of funds made available under subchapter II of this chapter and other programs requiring submission of a housing strategy. If the Secretary finds there is good cause, the Secretary may provide reasonable extensions of any deadlines for submission of a jurisdiction’s housing strategy.
**(b) Contents** A housing strategy submitted under this section shall be in a form that the Secretary determines to be appropriate for the assistance the jurisdiction may be provided and shall—
(1) describe the jurisdiction’s estimated housing needs projected for the ensuing 5-year period, and the jurisdiction’s need for assistance for very low-income, low-income, and moderate-income families, specifying such needs for different types of tenure and for different categories of residents, such as very low-income, low-income, and moderate-income families, the elderly, persons with disabilities, single persons, large families, residents of nonmetropolitan areas, families who are participating in an organized program to achieve economic independence and self-sufficiency, persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
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For purposes of this subchapter:
(1) **At risk of homelessness** — The term “at risk of homelessness” means, with respect to an individual or family, that the individual or family—
(A) has income below 30 percent of median income for the geographic area;
(B) has insufficient resources immediately available to attain housing stability; and
(C)
(i) has moved frequently because of economic reasons;
(ii) is living in the home of another because of economic hardship;
(iii) has been notified that their right to occupy their current housing or living situation will be terminated;
(iv) lives in a hotel or motel;
(v) lives in severely overcrowded housing;
(vi) is exiting an institution; or
(vii) otherwise lives in housing that has characteristics associated with instability and an increased risk of homelessness.
Such term includes all families with children and youth defined as homeless under other Federal statutes.
(2) **Chronically homeless**
(A) *In general* — The term “chronically homeless” means, with respect to an individual or family, that the individual or family—
(i) is homeless and lives or resides in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter;
(ii) has been homeless and living or residing in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter continuously for at least 1 year or on at least 4 separate occasions in the last 3 years; and
(iii) has an adult head of household (or a minor head of household if no adult is present in the household) with a diagnosable substance use disorder, serious mental illness, developmental disability (as defined in [section 15002 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-ti
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**(a) In general** After the expiration of the 2-year period that begins upon May 20, 2009, and except as provided in subsection (b), any project sponsor receiving funds under this subchapter to provide emergency shelter, transitional housing, or permanent housing to families with children under age 18 shall not deny admission to any family based on the age of any child under age 18.
**(b) Exception** Notwithstanding the requirement under subsection (a), project sponsors of transitional housing receiving funds under this subchapter may target transitional housing resources to families with children of a specific age only if the project sponsor—
(1) operates a transitional housing program that has a primary purpose of implementing an evidence-based practice that requires that housing units be targeted to families with children in a specific age group; and
(2) provides such assurances, as the Secretary shall require, that an equivalent appropriate alternative living arrangement for the whole family or household unit has been secured.
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**(a) Regulations** Not later than 60 days after July 22, 1987, the Secretary shall by notice establish such requirements as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this part. Such requirements shall be subject to [section 553 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section553&num=0&edition=prelim). The Secretary shall issue requirements based on the initial notice before the expiration of the 12-month period following July 22, 1987. Prior to the issuance of such requirements in final form, the requirements established by the Secretary implementing the provisions of the emergency shelter grants program under the provisions made effective by section 101(g) of Public Law 99–500 or Public Law 99–591 shall govern the emergency shelter grants program under this part.
**(b) Initial allocation of assistance** Not later than the expiration of the 60-day period following the date of enactment of a law providing appropriations to carry out this part, the Secretary shall notify each State, metropolitan city, and urban county that is to receive a direct grant of its allocation of assistance under this part. Such assistance shall be allocated and may be used notwithstanding any failure of the Secretary to issue requirements under subsection (a).
**(c) Minimum standards of habitability** The Secretary shall prescribe such minimum standards of habitability as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to ensure that emergency shelters assisted under this section are environments that provide appropriate privacy, safety, and sanitary and other health-related conditions for homeless persons and families. Grantees are authorized to establish standards of habitability in addition to those prescribed by the Secretary.
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**(a) In general** With respect to funding under this part, if certification of consistency with the consolidated plan pursuant to [section 11361 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section11361&num=0&edition=prelim) is withheld from an applicant who has submitted an application for that certification, such applicant may appeal such decision to the Secretary.
**(b) Procedure** The Secretary shall establish a procedure to process the appeals described in subsection (a).
**(c) Determination** Not later than 45 days after the date of receipt of an appeal described in subsection (a), the Secretary shall determine if certification was unreasonably withheld. If such certification was unreasonably withheld, the Secretary shall review such application and determine if such applicant shall receive funding under this part.
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to enable persons with disabilities to live with dignity and independence within their communities by expanding the supply of supportive housing that—
(1) is designed to accommodate the special needs of such persons;
(2) makes available supportive services that address the individual health, mental health, and other needs of such persons; and
(3) promotes and facilitates community integration for people with significant and long-term disabilities.
**(b) Authority to provide assistance** The Secretary is authorized to take the following actions:
(1) **Tenant-based assistance** — To provide tenant-based rental assistance to eligible persons with disabilities, in accordance with subsection (d)(4).
(2) **Capital advances** — To provide assistance to private, nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of supportive housing for persons with disabilities, which shall be provided as—
(A) capital advances in accordance with subsection (d)(1), and
(B) contracts for project rental assistance in accordance with subsection (d)(2);
assistance under this paragraph may be used to finance the acquisition, acquisition and moderate rehabilitation, construction, reconstruction, or moderate or substantial rehabilitation of housing, including the acquisition from the Resolution Trust Corporation, to be used as supportive housing for persons with disabilities and may include real property acquisition, site improvement, conversion, demolition, relocation, and other expenses that the Secretary determines are necessary to expand the supply of supportive housing for persons with disabilities.
(3) **Project rental assistance**
(A) *In general* — To offer additional methods of financing supportive housing for non-elderly adults with
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 11361
(f) Duties
A collaborative applicant shall—
(1) design a collaborative process for the de-
velopment of an application under part C, and
for evaluating the outcomes of projects for
which funds are awarded under part B, in such
a manner as to provide information necessary
for the Secretary—
(A) to determine compliance with—
(i) the program requirements under sec-
tion 11386 of this title; and
(ii) the selection criteria described under
section 11386a of this title; and
(B) to establish priorities for funding
projects in the geographic area involved;
(2) participate in the Consolidated Plan for
the geographic area served by the collabo-
rative applicant; and
(3) ensure operation of, and consistent par-
ticipation by, project sponsors in a commu-
nity-wide homeless management information
system (in this subsection referred to as
‘‘HMIS’’) that—
(A) collects unduplicated counts of individ-
uals and families experiencing homelessness;
(B) analyzes patterns of use of assistance
provided under parts B and C for the geo-
graphic area involved;
(C) provides information to project spon-
sors and applicants for needs analyses and
funding priorities; and
(D) is developed in accordance with stand-
ards established by the Secretary, including
standards that provide for—
(i) encryption of data collected for pur-
poses of HMIS;
(ii) documentation, including keeping an
accurate accounting, proper usage, and
disclosure, of HMIS data;
(iii) access to HMIS data by staff, con-
tractors, law enforcement, and academic
researchers;
(iv) rights of persons receiving services
under this subchapter;
(v) criminal and civil penalties for un-
lawful disclosure of data; and
(vi) such other standards as may be de-
termi
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