---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 79.15"
title: "38"
number: "79.15"
heading: "Eligible veterans."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/79.15"
---

# §79.15. Eligible veterans.

- (a) To be eligible for legal services under this part, an individual must be a:
  - (1) Homeless veteran or
  - (2) **Veteran at risk for homelessness.**
- (b) “At risk for homelessness” in this part means an individual who does not have sufficient resources or support networks, e.g., family, friends, faith-based or other social networks, immediately available to prevent them from moving to an emergency shelter or another place described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1) of the definition of “homeless” in [24 CFR 576.2](/cfr/24/576.2.md) and meets one or more of the following conditions:
  - (1) Has moved because of economic reasons two or more times during the 60 days immediately preceding the application for assistance;
  - (2) Is living in the home of another because of economic hardship;
  - (3) Has been notified in writing that their right to occupy their current housing or living situation will be terminated within 21 days after the date of application for assistance;
  - (4) Is constructively evicted from their current housing because of untenable conditions created by the landlord such as shutting off electricity and water or discriminatory acts;
  - (5) Lives in a hotel or motel and the cost of the hotel or motel stay is not paid by charitable organizations or by Federal, State, or local government programs for low-income individuals;
  - (6) Lives in a single-room occupancy or efficiency apartment unit in which there reside more than two persons or lives in a larger housing unit in which there reside more than 1.5 persons reside per room, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau;
  - (7) Is exiting a publicly funded institution, or system of care (such as a health-care facility, a mental health facility, foster care or other youth facility, or correction program or institution);
  - (8) Is fleeing, or is attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or other dangerous or life-threatening conditions that relate to violence against the individual, including a child, that has either taken place within the individual's primary nighttime residence or has made the individual afraid to return to their primary nighttime residence; or
  - (9) Otherwise lives in housing that has characteristics associated with instability and an increased risk for homelessness.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501, 38 U.S.C. 2022A, and as noted in specific sections.

### Source

Source: 87 FR 33041, June 1, 2022, unless otherwise noted.