§ 11903.
(a)
Public and assisted housing
Grants under this subchapter may be used in public housing or other federally assisted low-income housing projects for—
(1)
the employment of security personnel;
(2)
reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies for additional security and protective services;
(3)
physical improvements which are specifically designed to enhance security;
(4)
the employment of one or more individuals—
(A)
to investigate drug-related or violent crime in and around the real property comprising any public or other federally assisted low-income housing project; and
(B)
to provide evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial proceeding;
(5)
the provision of training, communications equipment, and other related equipment for use by voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with local law enforcement officials;
(6)
programs designed to reduce use of drugs in and around public or other federally assisted low-income housing projects, including drug-abuse prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment programs;
(7)
where a public housing agency, an Indian tribe, or recipient of assistance under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 [
25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.] receives a grant, providing funding to nonprofit resident management corporations and resident councils to develop security and drug abuse prevention programs involving site residents; and
(8)
sports programs and sports activities that serve primarily youths from public or other federally assisted low-income housing projects and are operated in conjunction with, or in furtherance of, an organized program or plan designed to reduce or eliminate drugs and drug-related problems in and around such projects.
(b)
Other PHA-owned housing
Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, grants under this subchapter may be used to eliminate drug-related crime in and around housing owned by public housing agencies that is not public housing assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937 [
42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.] and is not otherwise federally assisted, for the activities described in paragraphs (1) through (7) of subsection (a), but only if—
(1)
the housing is located in a high intensity drug trafficking area designated pursuant to section 1504
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of title 21; and
(2)
the public housing agency owning the housing demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that drug-related or violent activity in or around the housing has a detrimental effect on or about the real property comprising any public or other federally assisted low-income housing.
([Pub. L. 100–690, title V, § 5124], Nov. 18, 1988, [102 Stat. 4301]; [Pub. L. 101–625, title V, § 581(a)], Nov. 28, 1990, [104 Stat. 4246]; [Pub. L. 102–550, title I, § 161(c)], (d)(2), Oct. 28, 1992, [106 Stat. 3718], 3719; [Pub. L. 104–330, title VII, § 704(2)], Oct. 26, 1996, [110 Stat. 4051]; [Pub. L. 105–276, title II, § 220(2)], title V, § 586(d), Oct. 21, 1998, [112 Stat. 2488], 2647.)