Purposes

to promote community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers and State and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to individuals, families, and communities by homelessness; to promote access to, and effective utilization of, mainstream programs described in section 11313(a)(7) of this title and programs funded with State or local resources; and to optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The purposes of this part are— (Source: (Pub. L. 100–77, title IV, § 421, as added Pub. L. 111–22, div. B, title III, § 1301(2), May 20, 2009, 123 Stat. 1680.))