(4) housing repairs necessary to make the 
premises habitable, including installing insulation, 
window repair, door repair, roof repair, and other re-
pairs; 
(5) costs of obtaining services for behavioral, 
emotional, and mental health issues, domestic vio-
lence issues, child welfare issues, employment coun-
seling, substance abuse treatment, or other services; 
(6) costs of obtaining housing counseling or ad-
vice, including outreach, mediation, and case man-
agement; 
(7) costs of obtaining legal assistance relating 
to eviction, foreclosure, and other issues relating to 
a family retaining its housing; and 
(8) other short-term costs the payment of which 
increase housing stability for an extremely low-in-
come family, including costs for gas, groceries, auto-
motive repair, public transportation, furniture, appli-
cation fees, reunification services, and such other 
costs as the Secretary may provide. 
(e) APPLICATIONS.—The Secretary shall require, for 
a continuum of care to receive a grant under this section 
for a fiscal year, that the continuum of care submit to 
the Secretary, and the Secretary approve, an application 
containing such information as the Secretary considers 
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necessary to ensure that grant amounts are used in ac-
cordance with this section. 
(f) AMOUNT OF GRANTS.— 
(1) ALLOCATION.— 
(A) FISCAL
YEAR
2021.—For fiscal year 
2021, any amounts made available from the 
Fund for grants under this section shall be allo-
cated for grants to continua of care according 
to the formula established pursuant to para-
graph (2). 
(B) SUCCEEDING
FISCAL
YEARS.—For 
each fiscal year thereafter, of any amounts 
made available from the Fund for grants under 
this section— 
(i) 80 percent shall be allocated for 
grants to continua of care according to the 
formula established pursuant to paragraph 
(2); and 
(ii) 20 percent shall be allocated for 
grants to continua of care according to a 
competition pursuant to paragraph (3). 
(2) FORMULA.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, by 
regulation, establish a formula for use to allo-
cate amounts in the Fund for grants for a fiscal 
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year, in accordance with paragraph (1), for 
continua of care whose applications for such 
year for such assistance have been approved 
pursuant to subsection (e). 
(B) FACTORS.—The formula required by 
subparagraph (A) shall be designed to take into 
consideration, for the area served by a con-
tinuum of care— 
(i) the extent of the population that 
are extremely low-income families, includ-
ing the homeless population that is 
unsheltered, who are severely cost-bur-
dened by housing-related costs, including 
obligations described in subsection (d); and 
(ii) such other factors as the Sec-
retary may provide. 
The Secretary shall determine data to be used 
for the factors considered under the formula 
based on the most recently conducted Point-In- 
Time Homeless Count administered by the Sec-
retary. 
(3) COMPETITION.—The Secretary shall, by 
regulation, establish a competition for use to allocate 
amounts in the Fund for grants for a fiscal year for 
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continua of care pursuant to paragraph (1)(B)(ii), 
which shall be based on measurable criteria that— 
(A) to the greatest extent possible, are re-
quired to be collected and reported to the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development 
or any other Federal agency under other provi-
sions of law already in effect or otherwise do 
not impose new burdens on continua of care; 
(B) provide for targeting of assistance 
made available under an emergency housing as-
sistance program to households having the low-
est incomes; 
(C) encourage the leveraging of other non- 
Federal funds for providing assistance under an 
emergency housing assistance program; 
(D) encourage emergency housing assist-
ance programs assisted with grants under this 
section to provide preventive assistance to avoid 
homelessness; and 
(E) encourage problem-solving and diver-
sion methods, including the applicant’s capacity 
and interest in providing innovative delivery of 
housing stability interventions and connecting 
households to other public benefits that pro-
mote housing stability. 
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(g) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this Act, the fol-
lowing definitions shall apply: 
(1) CONTINUUM
OF
CARE.—The term ‘‘con-
tinuum of care’’ means a collaborative applicant es-
tablished and operating for a geographic area for 
purposes of the Continuum of Care Program under 
subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.). 
(2) FUND.—The term ‘‘Fund’’ means the 
Housing Stabilization Fund established under sub-
section (a). 
(3) EXTREMELY
LOW-INCOME
FAMILY.—The 
term ‘‘extremely low-income family’’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 3(b) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)). 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated for the Fund $100,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025. 
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