§11386a — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must award grant money after a national competition among geographic areas. The Secretary will pick winners using rules they write. Those rules look at past performance on homelessness (measured by eight things like how long people stay homeless, repeat homelessness, outreach, overall reductions, jobs and income, prevention, and other results), the applicant’s plan to cut homelessness (how they will prevent homelessness, shorten how long people are homeless, work with schools, serve different groups, use proven strategies, set measurable goals and timelines, name funding sources, and name who will lead), how projects are prioritized locally (using regular data, community input, public criteria, and openness to new applicants), how the grant will be joined with other public and private funds, and how the applicant coordinates with other agencies. Collaborative applicants that use authority to serve families defined as homeless under other Federal laws must include goals to prevent homelessness for the highest-risk families or to help them move into permanent housing, including help for chronic health, addiction, domestic violence, or work barriers. The Secretary can also use other factors they find appropriate. The Secretary will also consider how much need there is in each area. When grant notices go out, each collaborative applicant will be told its estimated share. That estimate must come from a formula the Secretary must make into a regulation no later than the end of the 2-year period beginning May 20, 2009. For a group of cities or counties, the estimate is the sum of each place’s share. If money is available, the Secretary can raise an area’s estimate to cover one year of renewals for expiring contracts. Communities are not required to do full counts of homeless people except for certain groups defined elsewhere in law. The Secretary may change the formula to make sure areas can renew projects for at least one year and are not discouraged from replacing old projects with better new ones.

Title 42, §11386a

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(a)The Secretary shall award funds to recipients through a national competition between geographic areas based on criteria established by the Secretary.

(b)(1)The criteria established under subsection (a) shall include—

(A)the previous performance of the recipient regarding homelessness, including performance related to funds provided under section 11372 of this title (except that recipients applying from geographic areas where no funds have been awarded under this part, or under parts C, D, E, or F of subchapter IV of this chapter, as in effect prior to May 20, 2009, shall receive full credit for performance under this subparagraph), measured by criteria that shall be announced by the Secretary, that shall take into account barriers faced by individual homeless people, and that shall include—

(i)the length of time individuals and families remain homeless;

(ii)the extent to which individuals and families who leave homelessness experience additional spells of homelessness;

(iii)the thoroughness of grantees in the geographic area in reaching homeless individuals and families;

(iv)overall reduction in the number of homeless individuals and families;

(v)jobs and income growth for homeless individuals and families;

(vi)success at reducing the number of individuals and families who become homeless;

(vii)other accomplishments by the recipient related to reducing homelessness; and

(viii)for collaborative applicants that have exercised the authority under section 11382(j) of this title to serve families with children and youth defined as homeless under other Federal statutes, success in achieving the goals and outcomes identified in subsection (b)(1)(F);

(B)the plan of the recipient, which shall describe—

(i)how the number of individuals and families who become homeless will be reduced in the community;

(ii)how the length of time that individuals and families remain homeless will be reduced;

(iii)how the recipient will collaborate with local education authorities to assist in the identification of individuals and families who become or remain homeless and are informed of their eligibility for services under part B of subchapter VI of this chapter (42 U.S.C. 11431 et seq.);

(iv)the extent to which the recipient will—

(I)address the needs of all relevant subpopulations;

(II)incorporate comprehensive strategies for reducing homelessness, including the interventions referred to in section 11386b(d) of this title;

(III)set quantifiable performance measures;

(IV)set timelines for completion of specific tasks;

(V)identify specific funding sources for planned activities; and

(VI)identify an individual or body responsible for overseeing implementation of specific strategies; and

(v)whether the recipient proposes to exercise authority to use funds under section 11382(j) of this title, and if so, how the recipient will achieve the goals and outcomes identified in subsection (b)(1)(F);

(C)the methodology of the recipient used to determine the priority for funding local projects under section 11382(c)(1) of this title, including the extent to which the priority-setting process—

(i)uses periodically collected information and analysis to determine the extent to which each project has resulted in rapid return to permanent housing for those served by the project, taking into account the severity of barriers faced by the people the project serves;

(ii)considers the full range of opinions from individuals or entities with knowledge of homelessness in the geographic area or an interest in preventing or ending homelessness in the geographic area;

(iii)is based on objective criteria that have been publicly announced by the recipient; and

(iv)is open to proposals from entities that have not previously received funds under this part;

(D)the extent to which the amount of assistance to be provided under this part to the recipient will be supplemented with resources from other public and private sources, including mainstream programs identified by the Government Accountability Office in the two reports described in section 11313(a)(7) of this title;

(E)demonstrated coordination by the recipient with the other Federal, State, local, private, and other entities serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness and at risk of homelessness in the planning and operation of projects;

(F)for collaborative applicants exercising the authority under section 11382(j) of this title to serve homeless families with children and youth defined as homeless under other Federal statutes, program goals and outcomes, which shall include—

(i)preventing homelessness among the subset of such families with children and youth who are at highest risk of becoming homeless, as such term is defined for purposes of this subchapter; or

(ii)achieving independent living in permanent housing among such families with children and youth, especially those who have a history of doubled-up and other temporary housing situations or are living in a temporary housing situation due to lack of available and appropriate emergency shelter, through the provision of eligible assistance that directly contributes to achieving such results including assistance to address chronic disabilities, chronic physical health or mental health conditions, substance addiction, histories of domestic violence or childhood abuse, or multiple barriers to employment; and

(G)such other factors as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to carry out this part in an effective and efficient manner.

(2)In addition to the criteria required under paragraph (1), the criteria established under paragraph (1) shall also include the need within the geographic area for homeless services, determined as follows and under the following conditions:

(A)The Secretary shall inform each collaborative applicant, at a time concurrent with the release of the notice of funding availability for the grants, of the pro rata estimated grant amount under this part for the geographic area represented by the collaborative applicant.

(B)(i)Such estimated grant amounts shall be determined by a formula, which shall be developed by the Secretary, by regulation, not later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning upon May 20, 2009, that is based upon factors that are appropriate to allocate funds to meet the goals and objectives of this part.

(ii)For a collaborative applicant that represents a combination or consortium of cities or counties, the estimated need amount shall be the sum of the estimated need amounts for the cities or counties represented by the collaborative applicant.

(iii)Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary shall increase the estimated need amount for a geographic area if necessary to provide 1 year of renewal funding for all expiring contracts entered into under this part for the geographic area.

(3)The Secretary shall not require that communities conduct an actual count of homeless people other than those described in paragraphs (1) through (4) of section 11302(a) of this title.

(c)The Secretary may adjust the formula described in subsection (b)(2) as necessary—

(1)to ensure that each collaborative applicant has sufficient funding to renew all qualified projects for at least one year; and

(2)to ensure that collaborative applicants are not discouraged from replacing renewal projects with new projects that the collaborative applicant determines will better be able to meet the purposes of this chapter.

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This chapter, referred to in subsec. (c)(2), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 100–77, July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 482, known as the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 11301 of this title and Tables.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 427 of Pub. L. 100–77 was renumbered section 433 and is classified to section 11387 of this title. Another prior section 427 of Pub. L. 100–77, July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 504; Pub. L. 100–628, title IV, § 453, Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3236, which provided for reports to Congress summarizing the activities carried out under the supportive housing demonstration program, was classified to section 11387 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–550, title XIV, § 1403(a), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4013.

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Section effective on the earlier of 18 months after May 20, 2009, or 3 months after publication of certain final

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by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, see section 1503 of Pub. L. 111–22, set out as an

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of 2009 Amendment note under section 11302 of this title.

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