[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 3]

[Revised as of April 1, 2005]

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 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]