Specifications include, but are not limited to: ESG funding must qualify as meeting a component that will assist, protect, and improve living conditions for the homeless. 1) Street Outreach: Meet the immediate needs of unsheltered homeless people by connecting them with emergency shelter, housing, and/or critical health services. 2) Emergency Shelter: Increase the quantity and quality of temporary shelters provided to homeless people, through the renovation of existing shelters or conversion of buildings to shelters, paying for the operating costs of shelters, and providing essential services. 3) Rapid Re-Housing: Move homeless people quickly to permanent housing through housing relocation and stabilization services and short- and/or medium-term rental assistance. 4) Homelessness Prevention: Prevent an individual or family from moving into an emergency shelter or living in a public or private place not meant for human habitation through housing relocation and stabilization services and short- and/or medium-term rental assistance 5) Homeless Management Information System (HMIS): Fund ESG recipients’ and subrecipients’ participation in the HMIS collection and analyses of data on individuals and families who are homeless and at-risk of homelessness.
