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[CITE: 42USC8001]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                 CHAPTER 89--CONGREGATE HOUSING SERVICES
 
Sec. 8001. Congressional findings

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) congregate housing, coordinated with the delivery of 
    supportive services, offers an innovative, proven, and cost-
    effective means of enabling temporarily disabled or handicapped 
    individuals to maintain their dignity and independence and to avoid 
    costly and unnecessary institutionalization;
        (2) a large and growing number of elderly and handicapped 
    residents of public housing projects and of nonprofit projects for 
    the elderly and handicapped face premature and unnecessary 
    institutionalization because of the absence of or deficiencies in 
    the availability, adequacy, coordination, or delivery of the 
    supportive services required for the successful development of 
    adequate numbers of congregate housing projects; and
        (3) supplemental supportive services, available on a secure and 
    continuing basis, are essential to a successful congregate housing 
    program.

(Pub. L. 95-557, title IV, Sec. 402, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2104.)


                               Short Title

    Section 401 of title IV of Pub. L. 95-557 provided that: ``This 
title [enacting this chapter and amending section 1437e of this title] 
may be cited as the `Congregate Housing Services Act of 1978'.''
