Authorizing Legislation

Attachment A

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

H.R. 1. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Title XII Department of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies - Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Planning and Development

HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION FUND

For homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing activities, $1,500,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2011: Provided, That funds provided under this heading shall be used for the provision of short-term or medium-term rental assistance; housing relocation and stabilization services including housing search, mediation or outreach to property owners, credit repair, security or utility deposits, utility payments, rental assistance for a final month at a location, moving cost assistance, and case management; or other appropriate activities for homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing of persons who have become homeless: Provided further, That grantees receiving such assistance shall collect data on the use of the funds awarded and persons served with this assistance in the HUD Homeless Management Information System (‘‘HMIS’’) or other comparable database: Provided further, That grantees may use up to 5 percent of any grant for administrative costs: Provided further, That funding made available under this heading shall be allocated to eligible grantees (as defined and designated in sections 411 and 412 of subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, (the ‘‘Act’’)) pursuant to the formula authorized by section 413 of the Act: Provided further, That the Secretary may establish a minimum grant size: Provided further, That grantees shall expend at least 60 percent of funds within 2 years of the date that funds became available to them for obligation, and 100 percent of funds within 3 years of such date, and the Secretary may recapture unexpended funds in violation of the 2-year expenditure requirement and reallocate such funds to grantees in compliance with that requirement: Provided further, That the Secretary may waive statutory or regulatory provisions (except provisions for fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the environment) necessary to facilitate the timely expenditure of funds: Provided further, That the Secretary shall publish a notice to establish such requirements as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section within 30 days of enactment of this Act and that this notice shall take effect upon issuance: Provided further, That of the funds provided under this heading, up to .5 percent shall be available for staffing, training, technical assistance, technology, monitoring, research and evaluation activities: Provided further, That funds set aside under the previous proviso shall remain available until September 30, 2012: Provided further, That any funds made available under this heading used by the Secretary for personnel expenses related to administering funding under this heading shall be transferred to ‘‘Community Planning and Development Personnel Compensation and Benefits’’ and shall retain the terms and conditions of this account including reprogramming provisions except that the period of availability set forth in the previous proviso shall govern such transferred funds: Provided further, That any funds made available under this heading used by the Secretary for training or other administrative expenses shall be transferred to ‘‘Administration, Operations, and Management’’ for non-personnel expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development: Provided further, That any funding made available under this heading used by the Secretary for technology shall be transferred to ‘‘Working Capital Fund.’’

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