Specifications include, but are not limited to: • Identify and locate eligible families, individuals, and/or youth/young adults who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness; • Increase the availability of permanent supportive housing as a means to reduce homelessness; • Provide services and supports to help eligible families, individuals and/or youth/young adults manage health and behavioral health conditions, address other disabling conditions or life challenges and become and remain stably housed; • Provide service and operating funding for permanent supportive housing units developed with available private, federal, state, and/or local capital funding resources. • Increase the availability of permanent supportive housing as a means to facilitate access to health services and improve the health status and quality of life experiences of families, individuals, and/or youth/young adults who are eligible for MRT funds; • Provide housing stability for young adults between ages 18 and 25, in a supportive environment based on positive youth development principles that recognize and build on the young adults’ strengths, and to maximize educational and employment opportunities to enable young adults to achieve self-sufficiency.
