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Cheat sheet: Housing Status and Program Type Eligibility

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Being discharged from a hospital or other institution;

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Living in housing that has been condemned by housing

officials and is no longer considered meant for human

habitation.

Category 3 – Homeless Only

Housing Programs should not use this Category.

Under Other Federal Statutes

Unaccompanied youth under 25 years of age, or families with

children and youth, who do not otherwise qualify as homeless under

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Services Only

this definition, but who:

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Other

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Are defined as homeless under section 387 of the Runaway

and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5732a), section 637 of

the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9832), section 41403 of the

Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043e–2),

section 330(h) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.

254b(h)), section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7

U.S.C. 2012), section 17(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966

(42 U.S.C. 1786(b)), or section 725 of the McKinney-Vento

Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a); AND

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Have not had a lease, ownership interest, or occupancy

agreement in permanent housing at any time during the 60

days immediately preceding the date of application for

homeless assistance; AND

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Have experienced persistent instability as measured by two

moves or more during the 60-day period immediately

preceding the date of applying for homeless assistance; AND

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Can be expected to continue in such status for an extended

period of time because of chronic disabilities, chronic

physical health or mental health conditions, substance

addiction, histories of domestic violence or childhood abuse

(including neglect), the presence of a child or youth with a

disability, or two or more barriers to employment, which

include the lack of a high school degree of General Education

Development (GED), illiteracy, low English proficiency, a

history of incarceration or detention for criminal activity, and

a history of unstable employment.

Category 4 – Fleeing Domestic

Any individual or family who:

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Violence

Is fleeing, or is attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating

violence, sexual assault, stalking, or other dangerous or life-

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threatening conditions that relate to violence against the

Same eligibility as

individual or a family member, including a child, that has

Category 1 - Homeless

either taken place within the individual’s or family’s primary

nighttime residence or has made the individual or family

afraid to return to their primary nighttime residence; AND

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Has no other residence; AND

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Lacks the resources or support networks, e.g., family,

friends, faith based or other social networks, to obtain other

Definitions per HUD’s

2014 HMIS Data Standards Manual

Last Revised 9/15/2015

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