34 U.S.C. § 12473 — Definitions

For this subpart: (1) "Assisted housing" means housing assisted under a specific list of federal housing law sections, including certain sections of title 12 dealing with mortgage insurance programs, section 811 and title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, subtitle D of title VIII of that same Act, title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, and section 1437f of title 42 (housing vouchers). (2) "Continuum of care" means a community plan built to organize and deliver housing and services so homeless people can move into stable housing and become as self-sufficient as possible. (3) "Low-income housing assistance voucher" means the housing assistance described in section 1437f of title 42. (4) "Public housing" means the housing described in section 1437a(b)(1) of title 42. (5) "Public housing agency" means the agency described in section 1437a(b)(6) of title 42. (6) "Homeless," "homeless individual," and "homeless person" mean someone who lacks a fixed, regular, adequate place to sleep at night. This includes: someone sharing another person's housing because of lost housing, hardship, or a similar reason; someone living in a motel, hotel, trailer park, or campground for lack of a better option; someone in an emergency or transitional shelter; someone abandoned in a hospital; someone awaiting foster care placement; someone whose main nighttime home is a place not meant for sleeping, like a car or the street; and migratory children (as defined in section 6399 of title 20) who are homeless for these same reasons. (7) "Homeless service provider" means a nonprofit group that serves homeless people, such as a shelter, an advocacy program, a tribal organization, or a coalition, that has a documented history of doing this work. (8) "Tribally designated housing" means housing assistance described in the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996. (9) "Tribally designated housing entity" means a housing entity described in that same 1996 Act.