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For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:(a) “Applicant” means a county that has applied to receive funds under the program.
(b) “Chronically homeless” has the same meaning as in Part 91 and Part 578 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as those parts read on January 1, 2018, and also includes people who were chronically homeless before entering an institution upon discharge from that institution, regardless of the length of institutional stay.
(c) “Continuum of care” has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(d) “County” includes a city and county or a city that is working with one or more counties to apply for grant funds.
(e) “Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development, unless otherwise identified.
(f) “Fair market rent” means the rent, including the cost of utilities, other than the telephone, as established by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, for units of varying sizes, as determined by the number of bedrooms, that is paid in the market area to rent privately owned, existing, decent, safe, and sanitary rental housing of a modest nature with suitable amenities.
(g) “Homeless” has the same meaning as in Section 91.5 of Subpart A of Part 91 of Subtitle A of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations. A person who is being released from prison who was homeless before their incarceration and who does not have an identified residence upon release is also “homeless.”
(h) “Homeless services provider” means an organization that qualifies as an exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that contracts with a participating county for the purpose of providing services to people experiencing homelessness.
(i) “Housing First” has the same meaning as in Section 8255 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(j) “Housing navigation” means services provided prior to release or in the community that assist program participants with all of the following:
(1) Locating permanent housing with private market landlords or property managers who are willing to accept rental assistance or operating subsidies for the program participants.
(2) Assisting participants in obtaining local, state, or federal rental assistance or subsidies.
(3) Completing housing applications for permanent housing and, when applicable, rental assistance or subsidies.
(4) Move-in assistance.
(5) Obtaining documentation needed to access permanent housing and rental assistance or subsidies.
(k) “Integrated Services for Mentally Ill Parolees program” or “ISMIP program” means the program of services provided pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 2985) of Chapter 7 of Title 1 of Part 3 of the Penal Code.
(l) “Interim interventions” means housing that does not qualify as permanent housing as defined under subdivision (n), including, but not limited to, emergency shelters, motel vouchers, or navigation centers as defined under other federal, state, or local programs. All programs providing interim interventions funded pursuant to this chapter shall have partnerships or other links to homeless services to connect individuals and families to income, public benefits, health services, and permanent housing.
(m) (1) “Likely to become homeless upon release” means the individual has a history of experiencing “homelessness” as that term is used in subdivision (e) of Section 11302 of Title 42 of the United States Code and the individual satisfies either of the following criteria:
(A) The person has not identified a fixed, regular, and adequate residence to occupy upon release.
(B) The person’s only identified nighttime residence for release includes a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations, or a public or private place not designed for, or is not ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
(2) A person who is being released from prison who was homeless prior to being incarcerated and who does not have an identified residence to occupy upon release is also “likely to become homeless upon release.”
(n) “Permanent housing” means a structure or set of structures with subsidized or unsubsidized rental housing units subject to applicable landlord-tenant law, without a limit on the length of stay and without a requirement to participate in supportive services as a condition of access to or continued occupancy of the housing. “Permanent housing” includes supportive housing.
(o) “Permanent supportive housing” means permanent housing without a limit on the length of stay that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist the supportive housing residents in retaining the housing, improving the participant’s health status, and maximizing the participant’s ability to live and, when possible, work in the community. “Permanent supportive housing” includes associated facilities if used to provide services to housing residents.
(p) “Program” means the Supportive Housing Program for Persons on Parole.
(q) “Rental assistance” means a rental subsidy provided to a housing provider, including a developer leasing affordable or supportive housing, to assist a tenant to pay the difference between 30 percent of the tenant’s income and fair market rent or reasonable market rent as determined by the grant recipient and approved by the department.
(r) “Subrecipient” means a unit of local government or a private nonprofit or for-profit organization that the administrative entity determines is qualified to undertake the eligible activities for which the recipient seeks funds under the program, and that enters into a contract with the recipient to undertake those eligible activities in accordance with the requirements of the program.
(s) “Voluntary services” means services offered in conjunction with housing that is not contingent on participation in services, from which tenants are not evicted based on failure to participate in services, where the service provider engages the tenant to encourage the tenant to voluntarily participate in services using evidence-based engagement models, and services are flexible and tenant centered.