This program allows nonprofit organizations to receive funding for many services, including transitional housing for persons currently homeless and permanent housing for homeless individuals with disabilities. Transitional housing assistance is designed to facilitate the movement of homeless individuals to independent living within 24 months (or a longer period as determined by HUD to be necessary to make the transition). Residents may be required to pay up to 30% of their adjusted income as their share of rent. Participants in this type of program may be required to leave the program at the end of the period or if they violate program rules. Termination is to be viewed as last resort, and the termination process requires that the residents be given written notice with a clear statement of the reasons for the termination. Residents are entitled to appeal the decision with an opportunity to present oral or written objections to a person other than the person who made the adverse decision or a subordinate of that person. A prompt written notice of the final decision is required.1

• 124 C.F.R. § 583.300(i).

Since 1992, HUD has awarded Shelter Plus Care funds to state and local governments and PHAs to serve homeless persons with disabilities such as serious mental illness, chronic substance abuse, and AIDS and related diseases. The program was created on the premise that housing and services need to be connected in order to ensure stability of housing for this population. The funds can be used to provide rental assistance in four ways: tenant-based rental assistance, sponsor-based rental assistance, project-based rental assistance, and moderate rehabilitation for single-room-occupancy dwellings (SROs). Only tenant-based rental assistance travels with the participant. Residents may leave a project or sponsor-based rental assistance program and be readmitted. The resident’s share of the rent is set at 30% of the resident’s adjusted income. The occupancy agreement is automatically renewable upon expiration, except on prior notice by either the tenant or the landlord. Residents may be terminated from the program if they violate program requirements, but termination is viewed as a last resort.1  The termination process requires written notice and an opportunity for a review of the decision, in which the participant is given the opportunity to present written or oral objections before a person other than the person (or a subordinate of that person) who made or approved the termination decision.2

• 124 C.F.R. § 582.320(a)–(b).
• 2Id.

The Supportive Housing Program and the Shelter Plus Care program were consolidated with other “legacy” homeless services programs under the Continuum of Care (CoC) program through the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009.1  

While individual program regulations still apply, HUD also issued interim regulations for CoC recipients and subrecipients in 2012.2

• 142 U.S.C. 11381, et seq.
• 224 C.F.R. § 578.