§2013 Program to improve retention of housing by formerly homeless veterans and veterans at risk of becoming homeless

Summary

The Secretary must run a program that gives case management to help veterans who used to be homeless and are moving into permanent homes, and veterans who are at risk of becoming homeless, keep their housing. The help must include guiding veterans to federal, State, local, and Tribal resources. If licensed providers are scarce in an area, people with a master’s degree in social work who are still training may provide services if they are supervised by a qualified person. The program is run by giving grants. Grants go first to groups that can do this work, especially those already using funds under sections 2012 and 2061. Extra priority goes to a group that stops taking those funds and turns a former transitional housing site into permanent housing that meets the housing quality standards in section 8(o)(8)(B) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(8)(B)). If a facility that got a construction, rehab, or purchase grant under section 2011 is converted this way, that conversion is allowed and is not treated as failing the grant terms. Grant recipients must report on the services they provided.