Understanding Shp - Table of Contents

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This guide highlights key aspects of the Supportive Housing Program (SHP). If you have further questions about the program or the application process, please contact your local HUD Field Office. Grants under the Supportive Housing Program are awarded through a national competition held annually.

The Supportive Housing Program is authorized by Title IV, Subtitle C, of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, as amended. It is designed to promote, as part of a local Continuum of Care strategy, the development of supportive housing and supportive services to assist homeless persons in the transition from homelessness and to enable them to live as independently as possible.

Assistance in the Supportive Housing Program is provided to help homeless persons meet three overall goals:

	achieve residential stability,
	increase their skill levels and/or incomes, and
	obtain greater self-determination (i.e., more influence over decisions that affect their lives).

Specific performance measures for each of these three goals must be established based on the needs and characteristics of the homeless population to be served. Grant recipients are required to monitor their clients' progress in meeting their performance measures on an ongoing basis. In addition to recordkeeping and evaluation that grantees may conduct for their own purposes, HUD requires recordkeeping and annual progress reports. The annual progress report includes questions that ask grantees to report on their progress in meeting performance measures. Grantees are expected to make changes in their program or adjust performance measures in response to ongoing evaluation of their progress.

	Program Components
	Eligible Applicants
	Eligible Activities
	Uses of Assistance

Funding Limitations

	Acquisition and Rehabilitation
	New Construction
	Match for Acquisition, Rehabilitation, and New Construction
	Match for Operating Costs
	Match for Supportive Services

The Application Process

	Application Process
	Initial Submission
	Technical Submission
	Environmental Review
	Site Control

Implementing the Proposed Project

	Implementing the Proposed Project
	Resident Participation
	Resident Rent
	Habitability Standards
	Ongoing Needs Assessment
	Financial Management
	Report Requirements
	For Further Information

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