Resolve, Directing the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management To Develop a Portable Voucher System To Subsidize Rental Housing for Veterans in the State

Sec. 1. Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management to develop a portable voucher system to subsidize rental housing for veterans in the State. Resolved: That the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, in collaboration with the Maine State Housing Authority, shall work with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a portable voucher system to provide rental housing assistance for veterans of the United States Armed Forces residing in the State. The portable voucher system must use as much as possible the existing administrative framework in the State for dispensing rental housing assistance, which includes disbursing portable vouchers, and must access federal funds through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs available for supportive housing for homeless veterans. For purposes of this resolve, "portable voucher" means a voucher for rental housing assistance that attaches to the recipient and not to a specific address or rental housing unit.

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This resolve directs the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, in collaboration with the Maine State Housing Authority, to work with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a portable voucher system to provide rental housing assistance in the State for veterans of the United States Armed Forces.