---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12906"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12906"
heading: "Grants for AIDS housing information and coordination services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12906"
units:
  - "Chapter 131 — Housing Opportunities for Persons with Aids"
---

# §12906. Grants for AIDS housing information and coordination services


Grants under this section may only be used for the following activities:

- (1) **Housing information services—** To provide (or contract to provide) counseling, information, and referral services to assist [eligible persons](/usc/42/12902.md?p=12) to locate, acquire, finance, and maintain housing and meet their housing needs.
- (2) **Resource identification—** To identify, coordinate, and develop [housing assistance](/usc/42/13641.md?p=3) resources (including conducting preliminary research and making expenditures necessary to determine the feasibility of specific housing-related initiatives) for [eligible persons](/usc/42/12902.md?p=12).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–625, title VIII, § 857, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4379; Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 606(j)(11)(B), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3811.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Pars. (1), (2). Pub. L. 102–550 substituted “eligible persons” for “individuals with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or related diseases”.