42 U.S.C. § 11903 — Eligible activities

(a) Public and assisted housing Grants under this subchapter may be used in public housing or other federally assisted low-income housing^* projects for—
(1) the employment of security personnel;
(2) reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies for additional security and protective services;
(3) physical improvements which are specifically designed to enhance security;
(4) the employment of one or more people—
(A) to investigate drug^*-related or violent crime in and around the real property comprising any public or other federally assisted low-income housing project^*; and
(B) to provide evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial proceeding;
(5) the provision of training, communications equipment, and other related equipment for use by voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with local law enforcement officials;
(6) programs designed to reduce use of drugs in and around public or other federally assisted low-income housing projects, including drug-abuse prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment^* programs;
(7) where a public housing agency, an Indian tribe^*, or recipient of assistance under the Native American Housing Assistance^* and Self-Determination Act of 1996 [ 25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.] receives a grant, providing funding to nonprofit resident management corporations and resident councils to develop security and drug abuse prevention programs involving site residents; and
(8) sports programs and sports activities that serve primarily youths from public or other federally assisted low-income housing projects and are operated in conjunction with, or in furtherance of, an organized program or plan designed to reduce or eliminate drugs and drug-related problems in and around such projects.
(b) Other PHA-owned housing even if another rule says otherwise any other provision of this subchapter, grants under this subchapter may be used to eliminate drug-related crime^* in and around housing owned by public housing agencies that is not public housing assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937 [ 42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.] and is not otherwise federally assisted, for the activities described in paragraphs
(1) through
(7) of subsection
(a), but only if—
(1) the housing is located in a high intensity drug trafficking area designated under section 1504 1 of title 21; and
(2) the public housing agency owning the housing shows, to the satisfaction of the Secretary^*, that drug-related or violent activity in or around the housing has a detrimental effect on or about the real property comprising any public or other federally assisted low-income housing.