§11374 Eligible activities

Summary

Lets program money pay for several things to help people who are homeless. It can fix up or change buildings to be emergency shelters. It can pay for important services tied to shelters or street outreach, like job help, health care, schooling, family support for homeless youth, substance‑abuse help, victim assistance, and mental‑health care — but only if the local government did not provide those services at any time in the past 12 months, or if the local government is in severe financial trouble, or if the funds would add to services already offered. The money can also keep shelters running (like upkeep, utilities, insurance, and furnishings), give short‑ or medium‑term rental help (tenant‑ or project‑based), and pay for housing move or stabilization help (for example, finding housing, talking with landlords, legal help, credit repair, security or utility deposits, utility payments, last‑month rent, moving costs, and other steps that keep people housed or quickly move them into permanent housing). An organization that gets these funds may not spend more than the larger of: 60 percent of its total grant for the year, or the amount it spent on the shelter-building, shelter services, and shelter operation activities in the prior fiscal year referenced by the law.