New Hampshire § 204-C-83 - Section 204-C:83 Program Design.

§ 204-C-83. Section 204-C:83 Program Design.

The homeless prevention fund shall be administered so as to promote the following goals and objectives: I. Applications for the benefits provided under this subdivision shall be streamlined so as to enable the authority to provide assistance to the eligible households as quickly as practicable. II. The program shall be as flexible as possible in order to maximize housing opportunities for very low income people. III. Give priority to very low income persons or families who are: (a) At households which include an employed person or a person in an employment training program. (b) Households which include a minor child or children, and the household is homeless or at risk of homelessness due to severe rent burden. (c) Households which are actually experiencing homelessness, and are currently residing in homeless or emergency shelters or receiving services as defined in rules adopted pursuant to RSA 204-C:85. (d) Households which consist of one or more disabled person(s) as defined in 42 United States Code, Section 12102. IV. Assistance shall only be provided to eligible households for dwelling units located in New Hampshire. V. Assistance granted to a household under this subdivision shall terminate after 36 consecutive months, provided however that the authority shall extend the assistance beyond this time limit when it is necessary to: (a) Enable a household member to complete an education, training, or vocational rehabilitation program in which he or she is currently involved when the 36-month time limit expires. (b) Provide reasonable accommodation for the disability of a household member. (c) Prevent an employed household member from facing a serious risk of job loss due to inability to obtain affordable housing within a reasonable distance from his or her job. VI. All households which receive assistance under this subdivision shall, within 60 days of obtaining such assistance, make an application to their local public housing authority or the authority for federal rental assistance. VII. No public housing authority created pursuant to RSA 203 shall reject an applicant for federal rental assistance or deny such applicant a priority on its waiting list for which such applicant would otherwise qualify, on the basis that such applicant is receiving rental assistance under this subdivision.