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 PUBLIC LAW 101-625—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 4219 assistance) solely because the family resides in public housing; "(ii) for any remaining assistance in any 1-year period, give preference to families who qualify under a system of local preferences established by the public housing agency in writing and after public hearing to respond to local housing needs and priorities, which may include (I) Eissisting very low-income families who either reside in transitional housing assisted under title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, or participate in a program designed to provide public assistance recipients with greater access to employment and educational opportunities; (II) assisting families in accordance with subsection (u)(2); (III) assisting families identified by local public agencies involved in providing for the welfare of children as having a lack of adequate housing that is a primary factor in the imminent placement of a child in foster care, or in preventing the discharge of a child from foster care and reunification with his or her family; (IV) assisting youth, upon discharge from foster care, in cases in which return to the family or extended family or adoption is not available; and (V) achieving other objectives of national housing policy as affirmed by Congress; and "(iii) prohibit any individual or family evicted from housing assisted under the Act by reason of drug-related criminsQ activity from having a preference under any provision of this subparagraph for 3 years unless the evicted tenant successfully completes a rehabilitation program approved by the agency, except that the agency may waive the application of this clause under standards established by the Secretary (which shall include waiver for any member of a family of an individual prohibited from tenancy under this clause who the agency determines clearly did not participate in and had no knowledge of such criminal activity or when circumstances leading to eviction no longer exist);"; and (2) VOUCHER PROGRAM. — Section 8(o)(3) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(3)), as amended by the preceding provisions of this Act, is further amended— (A) by inserting "(A)" after "(3)"; (B) by striking "(A)" and inserting "(i)"; (C) by striking "(B)" and inserting "(ii)"; (D) by striking "(C)" and inserting "(iii)"; (E) by striking "(D)" and inserting "(iv)"; (F) by paragraphing and inserting "(B)" after the first sentence; (G) by inserting "(including families that are homeless or living in a shelter for homeless families)" after "substandard housing"; and (H) by adding at the end the following new sentences: "The public housing agency shall in implementing the preceding sentence establish a system of preferences in writing and after public hearing to respond to local housing needs and priorities which may include (i) assisting very low-income families who either reside in transitional housing assisted under title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, or participate in a program de- -194O-91-29:QL3Part5

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