§ 11903. Eligible activities

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(a)Public and assisted housing Grants under this subchapter may be used in public housing or other federally assisted low-income housing projects for—

(1)the employment of security personnel;

(2)reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies for additional security and protective services;

(3)physical improvements which are specifically designed to enhance security;

(4)the employment of one or more individuals—

(A)to investigate drug-related or violent crime in and around the real property comprising any public or other federally assisted low-income housing project; and

(B)to provide evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial proceeding;

(5)the provision of training, communications equipment, and other related equipment for use by voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with local law enforcement officials;

(6)programs designed to reduce use of drugs in and around public or other federally assisted low-income housing projects, including drug-abuse prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment programs;

(7)where a public housing agency, an Indian tribe, or recipient of assistance under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 [25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.] receives a grant, providing funding to nonprofit resident management corporations and resident councils to develop security and drug abuse prevention programs involving site residents; and

(8)sports programs and sports activities that serve primarily youths from public or other federally assisted low-income housing projects and are operated in conjunction with, or in furtherance of, an organized program or plan designed to reduce or eliminate drugs and drug-related problems in and around such projects.

(b)Other PHA-owned housing Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, grants under this subchapter may be used to eliminate drug-related crime in and around housing owned by public housing agencies that is not public housing assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937 [42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.] and is not otherwise federally assisted, for the activities described in paragraphs

(1)through

(7)of subsection (a), but only if—

(1)the housing is located in a high intensity drug trafficking area designated pursuant to section 1504 1 of title 21; and

(2)the public housing agency owning the housing demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that drug-related or violent activity in or around the housing has a detrimental effect on or about the real property comprising any public or other federally assisted low-income housing.

(Pub. L. 100–690, title V, § 5124, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4301; Pub. L. 101–625, title V, § 581(a), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4246; Pub. L. 102–550, title I, § 161(c), (d)(2), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3718, 3719; Pub. L. 104–330, title VII, § 704(2), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4051; Pub. L. 105–276, title II, § 220(2), title V, § 586(d), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2488, 2647.)

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