[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR576.21]

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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
  CHAPTER V--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING AND 
        DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
PART 576_EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANTS PROGRAM: STEWART B. McKINNEY HOMELESS 
ASSISTANCE ACT--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B_Eligible Activities
 
Sec. 576.21  Eligible activities.


    (a) Eligible activities. Emergency shelter grant amounts may be used 
for one or more of the following activities relating to emergency 
shelter for the homeless:
    (1) Renovation, major rehabilitation, or conversion of buildings for 
use as emergency shelters for the homeless;
    (2) Provision of essential services to the homeless, subject to the 
limitations in paragraph (b) of this section;
    (3) Payment for shelter maintenance, operation, rent, repairs, 
security, fuel, equipment, insurance, utilities, food, and furnishings. 
Not more than 10 percent of the grant amount may be used for costs of 
staff;
    (4) Developing and implementing homeless prevention activities, 
subject to the limitations in 42 U.S.C. 11374(a)(4) and paragraph (c) of 
this section. Grant funds may be used under this paragraph to assist 
families that have received eviction notices or notices of termination 
of utility services only if the conditions stated in 42 U.S.C. 
11374(a)(4) are met; and
    (5) Administrative costs, in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 11378.
    (b) Limitations on provision of essential services. (1) Grant 
amounts provided by HUD to units of general local government, 
territories, or Indian tribes, and grant amounts provided by a State to 
State recipients, may be used to provide an essential service under 
paragraph (a)(2) of this section only if the service is a new service, 
or is a quantifiable increase in the level of a service above that which 
the unit of general local government (or, in the case

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of a nonprofit organization, the unit of general local government in 
which the proposed activities are to be located), territory, or Indian 
tribe, as applicable, provided with local funds during the 12 calendar 
months immediately before the grantee or State recipient received 
initial grant amounts.
    (2) Limits on the use of assistance for essential services 
established in 42 U.S.C. 11374(a)(2) are applicable even when the unit 
of local government, territory, or Indian tribe provides some or all of 
its grant funds to a nonprofit recipient. This limitation may be waived 
in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 11374.
    (c) Limitation on homeless prevention activities. Limits on the use 
of assistance for homeless prevention activities established in 42 
U.S.C. 11374(a)(4) are applicable even when the unit of local 
government, territory, or Indian tribe provides some or all of its grant 
funds to a nonprofit recipient.

[61 FR 51549, Oct. 2, 1996]