§11372. Grant assistance — Inbound Citations

Citations to 42 U.S.C. § 11372 as a whole

• 42 U.S.C. § 11372a(b)

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  (b) An entity that receives a grant under section 11372 of this title, and serves an area that includes 1 or more geographic areas (or portions of such areas) served by collaborative applicants that submit applications under part C, shall allocate the funds made available through the grant to carry out activities described in section 11374 of this title, in consultation with the collaborative applicants.
• 42 U.S.C. § 11374(a)

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  (a) Assistance provided under section 11372 of this title may be used for the following activities:

  (1) The renovation, major rehabilitation, or conversion of buildings to be used as emergency shelters.

  (2) The provision of essential services related to emergency shelter or street outreach, including services concerned with employment, health, education, family support services for homeless youth, substance abuse services, victim services, or mental health services, if—

  (A) such essential services have not been provided by the local government during any part of the immediately preceding 12-month period or the Secretary determines that the local government is in a severe financial deficit; or

  (B) the use of assistance under this part would complement the provision of those essential services.

  (3) Maintenance, operation, insurance, provision of utilities, and provision of furnishings related to emergency shelter.

  (4) Provision of rental assistance to provide short-term or medium-term housing to homeless individuals or families or individuals or families at risk of homelessness. Such rental assistance may include tenant-based or project-based rental assistance.

  (5) Housing relocation or stabilization services for homeless individuals or families or individuals or families at risk of homelessness, including housing search, mediation or outreach to property owners, legal services, credit repair, providing security or utility deposits, utility payments, rental assistance for a final month at a location, assistance with moving costs, or other activities that are effective at—

  (A) stabilizing individuals and families in their current housing; or

  (B) quickly moving such individuals and families to other permanent housing.
• 42 U.S.C. § 11374(b)

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  (b) A grantee of assistance provided under section 11372 of this title for any fiscal year may not use an amount of such assistance for activities described in paragraphs (1) through (3) of subsection (a) that exceeds the greater of—

  (1) 60 percent of the aggregate amount of such assistance provided for the grantee for such fiscal year; or

  (2) the amount expended by such grantee for such activities during fiscal year¹ most recently completed before the effective date under section 1503 of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009.
• 42 U.S.C. § 11386a(b)(1)(A)

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  (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);