42 U.S.C. § 8001 : US Code - Section 8001: Congressional findings

Search 42 U.S.C. § 8001 : US Code - Section 8001: Congressional findings

The Congress finds that -
(1) congregate housing, coordinated with the delivery of
supportive services, offers an innovative, proven, and cost-
effective means of enabling temporarily disabled or handicapped
individuals to maintain their dignity and independence and to
avoid costly and unnecessary institutionalization;
(2) a large and growing number of elderly and handicapped
residents of public housing projects and of nonprofit projects
for the elderly and handicapped face premature and unnecessary
institutionalization because of the absence of or deficiencies in
the availability, adequacy, coordination, or delivery of the
supportive services required for the successful development of
adequate numbers of congregate housing projects; and
(3) supplemental supportive services, available on a secure and
continuing basis, are essential to a successful congregate
housing program.