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IV. Eligibility Criteria <br /> 4.1 - ESG Rapid Re-housing Eligibility Criteria <br /> Rapid Re-Housing Assistance may be provided to individuals and families that meet the <br /> criteria in Paragraph 1 of the"homeless" definition in 24 CFR 576.2 or meet the criteria in <br /> Paragraph 4 of the homeless definition and live in an emergency shelter or other place <br /> described in paragraph (1) of the"homeless". <br /> The purpose of ESG funds for rapid re-housing is to assist eligible program participants to <br /> quickly obtain and sustain stable housing. Therefore, subrecipients providing assistance <br /> will utilize a process to assess,for all potential program participants,their level of service <br /> need, other resources available to them, and the appropriateness of their participation in <br /> the rapid re-housing assistance portion of ESG. <br /> Program participants who require longer-term housing assistance and services should be <br /> directed to programs that can provide the requisite services and financial assistance. In <br /> such cases,the ESG may serve as a"bridge"to permanent supportive housing if the housing <br /> program has been identified and the individual has been identified as homeless and disabled <br /> at time that Rapid Re-housing assistance began. <br /> There is no income threshold to be met at intake with Rapid Re-housing,only that they are <br /> homeless under these categories. <br /> Rapid Re-housing(24 CFR 576.104): ESG funds may be used to provide housing relocation <br /> and stabilization services and short-and/or medium-term rental assistance as necessary to <br /> help a homeless individual or family move as quickly as possible into permanent housing <br /> and achieve stability in that housing. This assistance, referred to as rapid re-housing <br /> assistance,may be provided to program participants who meet the following criteria: <br /> Paragraph 1 of 24 CFR 576.2: An individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and <br /> adequate nighttime residence,meaning: <br /> i. An individual or family with a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private <br /> place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for <br /> human beings,including a car,park,abandoned building,bus or train station,airport, <br /> or camping ground; <br /> ii. An individual or family living in a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter <br /> designated to provide temporary living arrangements (including congregate <br /> shelters, transitional housing, and hotels and motels paid for by charitable <br /> City of South Bend - ESG Policies and Procedures Manual 25 <br />