Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act Of 2010: Reforms To HUD’s Section 811 Program Enacted Summary
On January 4, 2011, President Barack Obama signed the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010, which reforms how the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will operate the federal Section 811 supportive housing program for non-elderly people with disabilities. It creates new supportive housing units via a rental assistance demonstration program and preserves the housing only for people with disabilities. It will also require public housing agencies to track the supply of housing vouchers for people with disabilities. This summary of the bill by the Technical Assistance Collaborative described how the reformed Section 811 program . . .
