PUBLIC LAW 101-625—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 4325 (2) provides supportive services that address the individual health, mental health, and other needs of such persons. (b) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Secretary is authorized to provide assistance to private, nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of supportive housing for persons with disabilities. Such assistance shall be provided as— (1) capital advances in accordance with subsection (d)(1), and (2) contracts for project rental assistance in accordance with subsection (d)(2). Such assistance may be used to finance the acquisition, acquisition and moderate rehabilitation, construction^ reconstruction, or moderate or substantial rehabilitation of housing, including the acquisition from the Resolution Trust Corporation, to be used as supportive housing for persons with disabilities and may include resil property acquisition, site improvement, conversion, demolition, relocation, and other expenses that the Secretary determines are necessary to expand the supply of supportive housing for persons with disabilities. (c) GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall take such actions as may be necessary to ensure that— (1) assistance made available under this section will be used to meet the special needs of persons with disabilities by providing a variety of housing options, ranging from group homes and independent living facilities to dwelling unite in multifamily housing developments, condominium housing, and cooperative housing; and (2) supportive housing for persons with disabilities assisted under this section shall— (A) provide persons with disabilities occupying such housing with supportive services that address their individual needs; (B) provide such persons with opportunities for optimal independent living and participation in normal daily activities, and (C) facilitate access by such persons to the community at large and to suitable employment opportunities within such community. (d) FORMS OF ASSISTANCE. — (1) CAPITAL ADVANCES.— A capital advance provided under this section sheill bear no interest and its repayment shall not be required so long as the housing remains available for very- low-income persons with disabilities in accordsmce with this section. Such advance shall be in an amount calculated in accordance with the development cost limitation established in subsection (h). (2) PROJECT RENTAL ASSISTANCE.— Contracts for project rental assistance shall obligate the Secretary to make monthly pay- ments to cover any part of the costs attributed to units occupied (or, as approved by the Secretary, held for occupancy) by very low-income persons with disabilities that is not met from project income. The annual contract amount for any project shall not exceed the sum of the initial annual project rentals for all units and any initial utility allowances for such units, as approved by the Secretary. Any contract amounts not used by a project in any year shall remain available to the project until the expiration of the contract. The Secretary may adjust the annual contract amount if the sum of the project income and the
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