3.3.2 Shelter Plus Care

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.

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