S. 2330 · 110th Congress

Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act

Stage
In committee
Introduced
2007-11-08
Latest action
2007-11-08 · Introduced in Senate

Summary

Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to provide assistance to private nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives to expand the supply of supportive housing for certain very low-income veteran families.

Allows such assistance to be in the form of: (1) a grant for costs of planning a supportive housing project; (2) a capital advance for such project; and (3) project rental assistance.

Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) ensure that any housing assistance provided to veterans or veteran families includes a range of specified services tailored to the needs of very low-income veteran families; and (2) provide financial assistance for such services.

Requires HUD periodically to establish development cost limitations by market area for various types and sizes of such supportive housing.

Establishes a special housing account.

Requires the owner of such supportive housing to adopt HUD-approved tenant selection procedures.