withstanding any other provision of law, no indi-
vidual shall be considered a person with disabilities, 
for purposes of eligibility for low-income housing 
under this title, solely on the basis of any drug or 
alcohol dependence. The Secretary shall consult with 
other appropriate Federal agencies to implement the 
preceding sentence. 
‘‘(C) The Secretary shall prescribe such regula-
tions as may be necessary to prevent abuses in de-
termining, under the definitions contained in this 
paragraph, the eligibility of families and persons for 
admission to and occupancy of housing assisted 
under this section. Notwithstanding the preceding 
provisions of this paragraph, the term ‘person with 
disabilities’ includes two or more persons with dis-
abilities living together, one or more such persons 
living with another person who is determined (under 
regulations prescribed by the Secretary) to be impor-
tant to their care or well-being, and the surviving 
member or members of any household described in 
subparagraph (A) who were living, in a unit assisted 
under this section, with the deceased member of the 
household at the time of his or her death.’’; 
(C) by striking paragraph (3) and insert-
ing the following new paragraph: 
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‘‘(3) The term ‘supportive housing for persons 
with disabilities’ means dwelling units that— 
‘‘(A) are designed to meet the permanent 
housing needs of very low-income persons with 
disabilities; and 
‘‘(B) are located in housing that make 
available supportive services that address the 
individual health, mental health, or other needs 
of such persons.’’; 
(D) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘a 
project for’’; and 
(E) in paragraph (6)— 
(i) by inserting after and below sub-
paragraph (D) the matter to be inserted by 
the amendment made by section 841 of the 
American Homeownership and Economic 
Opportunity Act of 2000 (Public Law 
106–569; 114 Stat. 3022); and 
(ii) in the matter inserted by the 
amendment made by subparagraph (A) of 
this paragraph, by striking ‘‘wholly owned 
and’’; and 
(8) in subsection (m) (as so redesignated by 
section 4(1) of this Act)— 
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(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘sub-
section 
(c)(1)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘subsection 
(d)(1)’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘sub-
section 
(c)(2)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘subsection 
(d)(2)’’. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Subsection (n) of section 811 (as so redesignated by 
section 4(1) of this Act) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(n) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated for each of fiscal years 
2008 through 2012 the following amounts: 
‘‘(1) CAPITAL ADVANCE/PRAC PROGRAM.—For 
providing assistance pursuant to subsection (b), such 
sums as may be necessary. 
‘‘(2) DEMONSTRATION
PROGRAM.—For car-
rying out the demonstration program under sub-
section (k), such sums as may be necessary to pro-
vide 2,500 incremental dwelling units under such 
program in each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009 and 
5,000 incremental dwelling units under such pro-
gram in each of fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 
2012.’’. 
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SEC. 7. NEW REGULATIONS AND PROGRAM GUIDANCE. 
Not later than the expiration of the 180-day period 
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall issue 
new regulations and guidance for the program under sec-
tion 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act for supportive housing for persons with dis-
abilities to carry out such program in accordance with the 
amendments made by this Act. 
Æ 
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