Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part C · Chapter 119 — Homeless Assistance
§ 11385. Supportive services
Statutory text
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.
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.
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.
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.
Coordination with Secretary of Health and Human Services
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.
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.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 100–77 title IV § 425 · 101 Stat. 482
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 11385
(Pub. L. 100–77, title IV, § 425, as added Pub. L. 102–550, title XIV, § 1403(a), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4017.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–77, title IV, § 425, as added Pub. L. 102–550, title XIV, § 1403(a), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4017.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 425. MATCHING FUNDS REQUIREMENTS. (a) Transitional Housing.— Each recipient shall be required to supplement the amount of assistance provided under paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 423(a) with an equal amount of funds from sources other than this subtitle. In calculating the amount of supplemental funds provided by a recipient under this subsection, a recipient may include the value of any donated material or building and the value of any lease on a building. (b) Permanent Housing for Handicapped Homeless Persons.— (1) Each State submitting an application for assistance for permanent housing for handicapped homeless persons shall certify that it will supplement the assistance provided under this subtitle with at least an equal amount of State or local government funds— (A) that are to be used solely for acquisition or rehabilitation; and (B) not more than 50 percent of which may be local government funds. (2) The Secretary may waive all or part of the requirement established in paragraph (1) if the State demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that— (A) the State is experiencing a severe financial hardship that makes it unable to provide an equal amount of funds; and (B) the local governments of the areas to be served by the project will contribute funds from other non-Federal sources in an aggregate amount equal to the amount of such contribution waived for the State under this paragraph.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 11385, Pub. L. 100–77, title IV, § 425, , 101 Stat. 503; Pub. L. 100–628, title IV, § 452, , 102 Stat. 3235; Pub. L. 101–625, title VIII, § 833(k)(3), , 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).
Credits
(Pub. L. 100–77, title IV, § 425, as added Pub. L. 102–550, title XIV, § 1403(a), , 106 Stat. 4017.)