265—42.4(16) Eligible activities.
- 42.4(1) Street outreach. The provision of essential services necessary to reach out to unsheltered homeless people; to connect them with shelter, housing, or critical services; and to provide urgent, non-facility-based care to unsheltered homeless people who are unwilling or unable to access shelter, housing, or an appropriate health facility.
- 42.4(2) Shelter. The provision of essential services to homeless families and individuals in shelters, the renovation of buildings to be used as emergency shelters for homeless families and individuals, and the operation of emergency shelters.
- 42.4(3) Prevention of homelessness. The provision of housing relocation and stabilization services, short- or medium-term rental assistance, or other financial assistance as necessary to prevent an individual or family from experiencing homelessness.
- 42.4(4) Rapid rehousing. The provision of housing relocation and stabilization services, short- or medium-term rental assistance, or other financial assistance as necessary to help an individual or family experiencing homelessness to move as quickly as possible into permanent housing and achieve stability in that housing.
- 42.4(5) Administrative costs. A subrecipient may use a portion of a grant received for administrative purposes as determined by the authority.
- 42.4(6) HMIS projects. The authority may award grants for HMIS implementation to support data collection, reporting, and analysis as long as the total amount of such grants does not exceed 10 percent of the total ESG program allocation. Eligible costs may include equipment, software, services, personnel, space, and operations for HMIS activities. The authority may in its discretion award such a grant, subject to the terms of this subrule, without regard to the application and review provisions of rules 265—42.6(16) and 265—42.7(16). Subrecipients of grants in support of other eligible activities listed in subrules 42.4(1) through 42.4(4) may also use a portion of such grants to support data collection and reporting using the HMIS or the DVIMS.
Eligible activities may include only the following.
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