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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§11385 Supportive Services

Title 42 › CHAPTER 119 — HOMELESS ASSISTANCE › SUBCHAPTER IV — HOUSING ASSISTANCE › Part C — Continuum of Care Program › § 11385

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Projects must, when possible, give supportive services to people who live in a project and to homeless people who use it. The recipient or the people in the program can design the services. The services must meet the special needs of the people the project aims to serve, such as homeless people with disabilities and homeless families with children. Services can include things like child care, job help, outpatient health care, food and case management, help finding permanent housing, counseling, security, and help getting other federal, state, or local benefits (including mental health and medical aid but not major medical equipment). Services can be provided by the recipient or by hired public or private providers and can help homeless people who do not live in the housing. If an application includes outpatient health care, HUD must ask HHS to review it. HHS has 45 days to say if the plan meets guidelines. HUD and HHS must write those guidelines together and make them allow HUD to meet its selection deadlines.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §11385

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general
To the extent practicable, each project shall provide supportive services for residents of the project and homeless persons using the project, which may be designed by the recipient or participants.
(b)Requirements
Supportive services provided in connection with a project shall address the special needs of individuals (such as homeless persons with disabilities and homeless families with children) intended to be served by a project.
(c)Services
Supportive services may include such activities as (A) establishing and operating a child care services program for homeless families, (B) establishing and operating an employment assistance program, (C) providing outpatient health services, food, and case management, (D) providing assistance in obtaining permanent housing, employment counseling, and nutritional counseling, (E) providing security arrangements necessary for the protection of residents of supportive housing and for homeless persons using the housing or project, (F) providing assistance in obtaining other Federal, State, and local assistance available for such residents (including mental health benefits, employment counseling, and medical assistance, but not including major medical equipment), and (G) providing other appropriate services.
(d)Provision of services
Services provided pursuant to this section may be provided directly by the recipient or by contract with other public or private service providers. Such services may be provided to homeless individuals who do not reside in supportive housing.
(e)Coordination with Secretary of Health and Human Services
(1)Approval
Promptly upon receipt of any application for assistance under this part that includes the provision of outpatient health services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall consult with the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to the proposed outpatient health services. If, within 45 days of such consultation, the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines that the proposal for delivery of the outpatient health services does not meet guidelines for determining the appropriateness of such proposed services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may require resubmission of the application, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may not approve such portion of the application unless and until such portion has been resubmitted in a form that the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines meets such guidelines.
(2)Guidelines
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall jointly establish guidelines for determining the appropriateness of proposed outpatient health services under this section. Such guidelines shall include any provisions necessary to enable the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to meet the time limits under this part for the final selection of applications for assistance.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 11385, Pub. L. 100–77, title IV, § 425, July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 503; Pub. L. 100–628, title IV, § 452, Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3235; Pub. L. 101–625, title VIII, § 833(k)(3), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4365, required recipients of assistance under supportive housing demonstration program to obtain an equal amount of funding from non-Federal sources, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–550, § 1403(a).

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 11385

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110