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‘‘(A) is between— 
‘‘(i) the recipient or a project sponsor; 
and 
‘‘(ii) an owner of a structure that ex-
ists as of the date the contract is entered 
into; and 
‘‘(B) provides that rental assistance pay-
ments shall be made to the owner and that the 
units in the structure shall be occupied by eligi-
ble persons for not less than the term of the 
contract. 
‘‘(19) PROJECT SPONSOR.—The term ‘project 
sponsor’, used with respect to proposed eligible ac-
tivities, means the organization directly responsible 
for carrying out the proposed eligible activities. 
‘‘(20) RECIPIENT.—Except as used in subtitle 
B, the term ‘recipient’ means an eligible entity 
who— 
‘‘(A) submits an application for a grant 
under section 422 that is approved by the Sec-
retary; 
‘‘(B) receives the grant directly from the 
Secretary to support approved projects de-
scribed in the application; and
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‘‘(C)(i) serves as a project sponsor for the 
projects; or 
‘‘(ii) awards the funds to project sponsors 
to carry out the projects. 
‘‘(21) SAFE
HAVEN.—The term ‘safe haven’ 
means a facility— 
‘‘(A) that provides 24-hour residence for 
an unspecified duration for persons who, on 
entry to the facility, are unwilling or unable to 
participate in mental health or substance abuse 
treatment programs, or to receive other sup-
portive services; 
‘‘(B) that provides private or semi-private 
accommodations; 
‘‘(C) that may provide for the common use 
of kitchen facilities, dining rooms, and bath-
rooms; 
‘‘(D) that may provide supportive services, 
on a drop-in basis, to eligible persons who are 
not residents; and 
‘‘(E) in which overnight occupancy is lim-
ited to no more than 25 persons. 
‘‘(22) 
SECRETARY.—The 
term 
‘Secretary’ 
means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment.
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‘‘(23) SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL.—The term 
‘seriously mentally ill’ means having a severe and 
persistent mental illness or emotional impairment 
that seriously limits a person’s ability to live inde-
pendently. 
‘‘(24) SOLO APPLICANT.—The term ‘solo appli-
cant’ means an entity that is an eligible entity, di-
rectly submits an application for a grant under sub-
title C to the Secretary, and, if awarded such grant, 
receives such grant directly from the Secretary. 
‘‘(25) STATE.—Except as used in subtitle B, 
the term ‘State’ means each of the several States, 
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 
Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(26) SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.—The term ‘sup-
portive services’ means the services described in sec-
tion 425. 
‘‘(27) 
TENANT-BASED.—The 
term 
‘tenant- 
based’, used with respect to rental assistance, means 
assistance that allows an eligible person to select a 
housing unit in which such person will live using 
rental assistance provided under subtitle C, except 
that if necessary to assure that the provision of sup-
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portive services to a person participating in a pro-
gram is feasible, a recipient or project sponsor may 
require that the person live— 
‘‘(A) in a particular structure or unit for 
not more than the first year of the participa-
tion; and 
‘‘(B) within a particular geographic area 
for the full period of the participation, or the 
period remaining after the period referred to in 
subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(28) TRANSITIONAL
HOUSING.—The term 
‘transitional housing’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 424(b), and includes transitional 
supportive housing.’’. 
SEC. 412. COMMUNITY HOMELESS ASSISTANCE PLANNING 
BOARDS. 
Subtitle A of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et seq.) is amended 
by inserting after section 401 (as added by section 411(3) 
of this Act) the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 402. COMMUNITY HOMELESS ASSISTANCE PLANNING 
BOARDS. 
‘‘(a) BOARDS.—A community homeless assistance 
planning board shall be established for a geographic area 
by the relevant parties in that geographic area, or des-
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ignated for a geographic area by the Secretary in accord-
ance with subsection (c), to lead a collaborative planning 
process to design, execute, and evaluate programs, poli-
cies, and practices to prevent and end homelessness. 
‘‘(b) MEMBERSHIP.—A community board established 
under subsection (a) shall be composed of persons— 
‘‘(1) who are from a particular geographic area; 
‘‘(2) not less than 51 percent of whom are— 
‘‘(A) persons who are experiencing or have 
experienced homelessness (with not fewer than 
2 persons being individuals who are experi-
encing or have experienced homelessness); 
‘‘(B) persons who act as advocates for the 
diverse subpopulations of persons experiencing 
homelessness, including advocates for homeless 
veterans, the mentally ill, the physically handi-
capped, and victims of domestic violence; 
‘‘(C) persons or representatives of organi-
zations who provide assistance to the variety of 
individuals and families experiencing homeless-
ness; or 
‘‘(D) superintendents of local educational 
agencies or their designees, such as liaisons for 
homeless children and youths designated pursu-
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ant to section 722(g)(1)(J)(ii) (42 U.S.C. 
11432(g)(1)(J)(ii)); and 
‘‘(3) the remainder of whom are selected from 
among— 
‘‘(A) government officials, particularly 
those officials responsible for administering 
funding under programs targeted for persons 
experiencing homelessness and other programs 
for which persons experiencing homelessness 
are eligible, including law enforcement officials 
responsible for persons on parole or probation; 
‘‘(B) members of the business community; 
‘‘(C) members of the religious community 
or faith-based organizations; and 
‘‘(D) members of neighborhood advocacy 
organizations. 
‘‘(c) EXISTING PLANNING BODIES.—The Secretary 
may designate an entity to be a community board if such 
entity has, prior to the date of enactment of the Bringing 
America Home Act, engaged in coordinated, comprehen-
sive local homeless housing and services planning and ap-
plied for Federal funding to provide homeless assistance. 
‘‘(d) REMEDIAL ACTION.—If the Secretary finds that 
a community board for a geographic area does not meet 
the requirements of this section, the Secretary may take
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remedial action to ensure fair distribution of grant 
amounts under this title to eligible entities within that 
area. Such measures may include designating another 
body as a community board or permitting eligible entities 
to apply directly for grants. 
‘‘(e) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall 
be construed to displace conflict of interest or government 
fair practices laws, or their equivalent, that govern appli-
cants for grant amounts under subtitles B and C. 
‘‘(f) DUTIES.—A community board established under 
subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(1)(A) design a collaborative process, estab-
lished jointly and complied with by its members, for 
evaluating, reviewing, and prioritizing projects and 
applications for grants under subtitles B and C sub-
mitted by eligible entities, in such a manner as to 
ensure that the entities further the goal of pre-
venting and ending homelessness in the geographic 
area involved; 
‘‘(B)(i)(I) review relevant policies and practices 
(in place and planned) of public and private entities 
in the geographic area served by the community 
board to determine if the policies and practices fur-
ther or impede the goal described in subparagraph 
(A);
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‘‘(II) in conducting the review, give priority to 
the review of— 
‘‘(aa) the discharge planning and service 
termination policies and practices of publicly 
funded facilities or institutions (such as health 
care or treatment facilities or institutions, fos-
ter care or youth facilities, or correctional insti-
tutions), and entities carrying out publicly 
funded programs and systems of care (such as 
health care or treatment programs, State pro-
grams funded under part A of title IV of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) (re-
lating to Temporary Assistance for Needy Fam-
ilies), foster care or youth programs, or correc-
tional programs), to ensure that such a dis-
charge or termination does not result in imme-
diate homelessness for the persons involved; 
‘‘(bb) the access and utilization policies 
and practices of the entities carrying out main-
stream programs, to ensure that persons at risk 
of or experiencing homelessness are able to ac-
cess and utilize the programs; and 
‘‘(cc) local policies and practices relating to 
zoning and enforcement of local statutes, to en-
sure that the policies and practices allow rea-
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sonable inclusion and distribution in the geo-
graphic area of special needs populations and 
families with children; and 
‘‘(III) in conducting the review, determine the 
modifications and corrective actions that need to be 
taken, and by whom, to ensure that the relevant 
policies and practices do not stimulate, or prolong, 
homelessness in the geographic area; 
‘‘(ii) inform the entities of the determinations 
described in clause (i); and 
‘‘(iii) once every 3 years, prepare for inclusion 
in any application reviewed by the community board 
and submitted to the Secretary under section 422, 
the determinations described in clause (i), in the 
form of an exhibit entitled ‘Assessment of Relevant 
Policies and Practices, and Needed Corrective Ac-
tions to End and Prevent Homelessness’; and 
‘‘(C) if the community board designs and car-
ries out the projects, design and carry out the 
projects in such a manner as to further the goal de-
scribed in subparagraph (A); 
‘‘(2) require, consistent with the Government 
Performance and Results Act of 1993 and amend-
ments made by that Act, that recipients and project 
sponsors who are funded by grants received under
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this title implement and maintain an outcome-based 
evaluation of their projects that measures effective 
and timely delivery of housing or services and wheth-
er provision of such housing or services results in 
preventing or ending homelessness for the persons 
that such recipients and project sponsors serve; 
‘‘(3) require, consistent with the Government 
Performance and Results Act of 1993 and amend-
ments made by that Act, outcome-based evaluation 
of the community board’s homeless assistance plan-
ning process to measure the community board’s per-
formance in preventing or ending the homelessness 
of persons in the community board’s geographic 
area; and 
‘‘(4) participate in the Consolidated Plan for 
the geographic area served by the community 
board.’’ 
SEC. 413. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND PERFORMANCE RE-
PORTS. 
Subtitle A of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et seq.) is amended by insert-
ing after section 403 (as so redesignated by section 411(2) 
of this Act) the following new sections:
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‘‘SEC. 404. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide tech-
nical assistance to— 
‘‘(1) States, metropolitan cities, urban counties, 
and counties that are not urban counties, that have 
not applied for, or have failed to receive, funding 
under this title, in order to implement effective plan-
ning processes for preventing and ending homeless-
ness and to improve their capacity to prepare col-
laborative applications; and 
‘‘(2) community boards or their predecessor 
homeless planning bodies in States, metropolitan cit-
ies, urban counties, and counties that are not urban 
counties, that have not applied for, or have failed to 
receive, funding under this title, in order to improve 
their capacity to prepare collaborative applications. 
‘‘(b) RESERVATION.—The Secretary shall reserve not 
more than 1 percent of the funds made available for any 
fiscal year for carrying out subtitles B and C, to provide 
technical assistance under subsection (a). 
‘‘SEC. 405. PERFORMANCE REPORTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each community board shall 
submit to the Secretary an annual performance report re-
garding the activities carried out with grant amounts re-
ceived under subtitles B and C in the geographic area
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served by the community board, at such time and in such 
manner as the Secretary determines to be reasonable. 
‘‘(b) CONTENT.—The performance report described 
in subsection (a) shall— 
‘‘(1) describe the number of persons provided 
homelessness prevention assistance, and the number 
of individuals and families experiencing homelessness 
who were provided shelter, housing, or supportive 
services, with the grant amounts awarded in the fis-
cal year prior to the fiscal year in which the report 
was submitted, including measurements of the num-
ber of persons experiencing homelessness who— 
‘‘(A) entered permanent housing, and the 
length of time such persons resided in that 
housing, if known; 
‘‘(B) entered transitional housing, and the 
length of time such persons resided in that 
housing, if known; 
‘‘(C) obtained or retained jobs; 
‘‘(D) increased their income, including in-
creasing income through the receipt of govern-
ment benefits; 
‘‘(E) received mental health or substance 
abuse treatment in an institutional setting and
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now receive that assistance in a less restrictive, 
community-based setting; 
‘‘(F) received additional education, voca-
tional or job training, or employment assistance 
services; and 
‘‘(G) received additional physical, mental, 
or emotional health care; 
‘‘(2) estimate the number of persons experi-
encing homelessness in the geographic area served 
by the community board who are eligible for, but did 
not receive, services, housing, or other assistance 
through the programs funded under subtitles B and 
C in the prior fiscal year; 
‘‘(3) indicate the accomplishments achieved 
within the geographic area to prevent the homeless-
ness of persons discharged from publicly funded in-
stitutions or systems of care (such as health care fa-
cilities, foster care or other youth facilities or sys-
tems of care, institutions or systems of care relating 
to the temporary assistance to needy families pro-
gram established under part A of title IV of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), and cor-
rections programs and institutions); and
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‘‘(4) assess the consistency and coordination be-
tween the programs funded under subtitles B and C 
in the prior fiscal year and the Consolidated Plan. 
‘‘(c) WAIVER.—The Secretary may grant a waiver to 
any community board that is unable to provide informa-
tion required by subsection (b). Such community board 
shall submit a plan to provide such information within a 
reasonable period of time.’’. 
SEC. 414. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Subtitle A of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et seq.) is amended by insert-
ing after section 406 (as so redesignated by section 411(2) 
of this Act) the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 407. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
title II and this title $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2007 
and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 
2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.’’. 
Subtitle B—Emergency Shelter 
Grants Program 
SEC. 421. GRANT ASSISTANCE. 
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is 
amended by striking section 412 (42 U.S.C. 11372) and 
inserting the following new section:
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‘‘SEC. 412. GRANT ASSISTANCE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make grants 
to States and local governments (and to private nonprofit 
organizations providing assistance to persons experiencing 
homelessness, in the case of grants made with reallocated 
amounts) for the purpose of carrying out activities de-
scribed in section 414. 
‘‘(b) COORDINATION WITH COMMUNITY BOARDS.— 
An entity that receives a grant under this section and 
serves an area that includes one or more geographic areas 
(or portions of such areas) served by community boards 
that submit applications under subtitle C, shall allocate 
the funds made available through the grant to carry out 
activities described in section 414, in consultation with 
such community boards.’’. 
SEC. 422. AMOUNT AND ALLOCATION OF ASSISTANCE. 
Section 413 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11373) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘amounts appropriated’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘for any’’ and in-
serting ‘‘amounts appropriated under section 
407 and made available to carry out this sub-
title for any’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘subsection (a)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsection (b)’’;
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(2) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘subsection 
(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (c)’’; 
(3) by redesignating subsections (a) through (e) 
as subsections (b) through (f), respectively; and 
(4) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so re-
designated by paragraph (3) of this section) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(a) LIMITATION ON AMOUNTS USED FOR EMER-
GENCY SHELTER.—Of the amount made available to carry 
out this subtitle and subtitle C for a fiscal year, the Sec-
retary shall allocate nationally for use under this subtitle 
an aggregate amount not exceeding 15 percent of such 
total amount.’’. 
SEC. 423. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. 
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is 
amended by striking section 414 (42 U.S.C. 11374) and 
inserting the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 414. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. 
‘‘Assistance provided under section 412 may be used 
for the following activities: 
‘‘(1) The renovation, major rehabilitation, or 
conversion of buildings to be used as emergency 
shelters. 
‘‘(2) The provision of essential services, includ-
ing services concerned with employment, health, or
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education, family support services for homeless 
youth, alcohol or drug abuse prevention or treat-
ment, or mental health treatment, if— 
‘‘(A) such essential services have not been 
provided by the local government during any 
part of the immediately preceding 12-month pe-
riod or the Secretary determines that the local 
government is in a severe financial deficit; or 
‘‘(B) the use of assistance under this sub-
title would complement the provision of those 
essential services. 
‘‘(3) Maintenance, operation, insurance, provi-
sion of utilities, and provision of furnishings. 
‘‘(4) For homelessness prevention activities.’’. 
SEC. 424. REPEALS. 
Sections 417 and 418 of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11377, 11378) are hereby 
repealed. 
Subtitle C—Continuum of Care 
Program 
SEC. 431. CONTINUUM OF CARE. 
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is 
amended—
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(1) by striking the subtitle heading for subtitle 
C of title IV (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘Subtitle C—Continuum of Care 
Program’’; 
and 
(2) by striking section 422 (42 U.S.C. 11382) 
and inserting the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 422. CONTINUUM OF CARE APPLICATIONS AND 
GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) ELIGIBLE APPLICANT.—In this section, the 
term ‘eligible applicant’ means a collaborative applicant or 
solo applicant. 
‘‘(b) PROJECTS.—The Secretary shall award grants 
to eligible applicants to carry out homeless assistance and 
prevention projects. 
‘‘(c) NOTIFICATION OF FUNDING AVAILABILITY.— 
The Secretary shall release a notification of funding avail-
ability for grants awarded under this subtitle for a fiscal 
year not later than 3 months after the date of enactment 
of the appropriate Act making appropriations for the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development for such fis-
cal year. 
‘‘(d) APPLICATIONS.—
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To receive a grant under 
subsection (b), an eligible applicant shall submit an 
application for the grant to a community board in 
accordance with the collaborative process established 
by the board, as described in section 402, and have 
such application reviewed, approved, and prioritized 
by such community board, except that a solo appli-
cant may submit such application to the Secretary 
without participating in such process if the applicant 
includes information in such application regarding 
why the applicant has not participated. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—To receive the grant, after 
receiving approval from the community board for the 
application, the eligible applicant shall submit an ap-
plication to the Secretary at such time and in such 
manner as the Secretary may require, and con-
taining— 
‘‘(A) the application submitted to the com-
munity board; and 
‘‘(B) other information that, in addition to 
including the information described in sub-
sections (a) and (c) of section 426, shall— 
‘‘(i) describe the establishment and 
function of the community board, includ-
ing—
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‘‘(I) the nomination and selection 
process for such board, including the 
names and affiliations of all such 
board members; 
‘‘(II) all meetings held by such 
board in preparing the collaborative 
application, including identification of 
those meetings that were public; and 
‘‘(III) all meetings between board 
representatives, and persons respon-
sible for administering the consoli-
dated plan; 
‘‘(ii) outline the range of housing and 
service programs available to persons expe-
riencing homelessness or imminently at 
risk of experiencing homelessness and de-
scribe the unmet needs that remain in the 
geographic area for which the collaborative 
applicant seeks funding regarding— 
‘‘(I) prevention activities, includ-
ing providing assistance in— 
‘‘(aa) 
making 
mortgage, 
rent, or utility payments; or 
‘‘(bb) accessing permanent 
housing and transitional housing
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for individuals (and families that 
include the individuals) who are 
being discharged from a publicly 
funded facility, program, or sys-
tem of care, or whose services 
(from such a facility, program, or 
system of care) are being termi-
nated, including discharge from a 
foster care program; 
‘‘(II) outreach activities to assess 
the needs and conditions of persons 
experiencing homelessness; 
‘‘(III) emergency shelters, includ-
ing the supportive and referral serv-
ices the shelters provide; 
‘‘(IV) transitional housing with, 
as needed, appropriate supportive 
services to help persons experiencing 
homelessness who are not yet able or 
prepared to make the transition to 
permanent housing and independent 
living; 
‘‘(V) permanent housing to help 
meet the long-term needs of individ-
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uals and families experiencing home-
lessness; and 
‘‘(VI) needed supportive services; 
‘‘(iii) prioritize the projects for which 
the collaborative applicant seeks funding 
according to the unmet needs in the fiscal 
year in which the applicant submits the ap-
plication as described in clause (ii); 
‘‘(iv) identify funds from private and 
public sources, other than funds received 
under subtitle B and this subtitle, that the 
State, units of general local government, 
recipients, project sponsors, and others will 
use for homelessness prevention, emer-
gency shelter, supportive services, transi-
tional housing, permanent housing, and 
permanent supportive housing that will be 
integrated with the assistance provided 
under subtitle B and this subtitle; 
‘‘(v) identify funds provided by the 
State and units of general local govern-
ment under programs targeted for persons 
experiencing homelessness, and other pro-
grams for which persons experiencing 
homelessness are eligible, including pro-
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grams identified by the General Account-
ing Office in the February 1999 report en-
titled ‘Homelessness: Coordination and 
Evaluation of Programs Are Essential’; 
‘‘(vi) explain— 
‘‘(I) how the collaborative appli-
cant will meet the housing and service 
needs of individuals and families expe-
riencing homelessness in the appli-
cant’s community; and 
‘‘(II) the strategy of the State, 
units of general local government, and 
private entities in the geographic area 
over the next 5 years to prevent and 
end homelessness, including, as part 
of that strategy, a work plan for the 
applicable fiscal years; 
‘‘(vii) report on the outcome-based 
performance of the homeless programs 
within the geographic area served by the 
collaborative applicant that were funded 
under this title in the fiscal year prior to 
the fiscal year in which the application is 
submitted;
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‘‘(viii) include any relevant required 
agreements under this subtitle; 
‘‘(ix) contain a certification of consist-
ency with the consolidated plan pursuant 
to section 403; 
‘‘(x) contain a certification that the 
applicable States and units of general local 
government are not penalizing homeless in-
dividuals and families— 
‘‘(I) through laws, ordinances, or 
policies based upon their status as 
homeless; or 
‘‘(II) by using zoning laws, ordi-
nances, or policies to prevent the 
siting of facilities designed to serve 
the homeless; 
‘‘(xi) contain such certifications and 
assurances as the Secretary, in consulta-
tion with the Secretary of Education, con-
siders appropriate to ensure that— 
‘‘(I) the applicable States and 
State and local educational agencies 
agree to comply with the requirements 
applicable to such States and agencies 
that receive grants under subtitle B of