---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8003"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8003"
heading: "Contracts to provide congregate services programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8003"
units:
  - "Chapter 89 — Congregate Housing Services"
---

# §8003. Contracts to provide congregate services programs


The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to as the “[Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2)”) is authorized to enter into contracts with local public housing [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) under the United States Housing Act of 1937 [[42 U.S.C. 1437](/usc/42/1437.md) et seq.] (hereinafter referred to as “public housing [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1)”) and with [nonprofit corporations](/usc/42/8002.md?p=9), utilizing sums appropriated under this chapter, to provide [congregate services programs](/usc/42/8002.md?p=2) for [eligible project residents](/usc/42/8002.md?p=4) in order to promote and encourage maximum [independence](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=1-B) within a home environment for such residents capable of self-care with appropriate supportive congregate services. Each contract between the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) and a public housing [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) or [nonprofit corporation](/usc/42/8002.md?p=9) shall be for a term of not less than three years or more than five years and shall be renewable at the expiration of such term. Each public housing [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) or [nonprofit corporation](/usc/42/8002.md?p=9) entering into such a contract shall be reserved a sum equal to its total approved contract amount from the moneys authorized and appropriated for the fiscal year in which the notification date of funding approval falls.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–557, title IV, § 404, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2106.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The United States Housing Act of 1937, referred to in text, is act Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 896, as revised generally by Pub. L. 93–383, title II, § 201(a), Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 653, which is classified generally to chapter 8 (§ 1437 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1437 of this title and Tables.