---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8001"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8001"
heading: "Congressional findings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8001"
units:
  - "Chapter 89 — Congregate Housing Services"
---

# §8001. Congressional findings


The Congress finds that—

- (1) [congregate housing](/usc/42/8002.md?p=1), coordinated with the delivery of supportive services, offers an innovative, proven, and cost-effective means of enabling [temporarily disabled](/usc/42/8002.md?p=8) or [handicapped](/usc/42/8002.md?p=5) individuals to maintain their dignity and [independence](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=1-B) and to avoid costly and unnecessary institutionalization;
- (2) a large and growing number of [elderly](/usc/42/8002.md?p=3) and [handicapped](/usc/42/8002.md?p=5) residents of public housing [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) and of [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for the [elderly](/usc/42/8002.md?p=3) and [handicapped](/usc/42/8002.md?p=5) face premature and unnecessary institutionalization because of the absence of or deficiencies in the availability, adequacy, coordination, or delivery of the supportive services required for the successful development of adequate numbers of [congregate housing](/usc/42/8002.md?p=1) [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2); and
- (3) supplemental supportive services, available on a secure and continuing basis, are essential to a successful [congregate housing](/usc/42/8002.md?p=1) program.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–557, title IV, § 402, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2104.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title of 2011 Amendment

Pub. L. 111–374, § 1(a), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 4089, provided that: “This Act [amending section 8013 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 8013 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010’.”

### Short Title

Pub. L. 95–557, title IV, § 401, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2104, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter and amending section 1437e of this title] may be cited as the ‘Congregate Housing Services Act of 1978’.”