Homeless Individual Law and Legal Definition
"Homeless individual" includes--
(1) “an individual who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence; or
(2) an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is--
(A) a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter (including a welfare hotel or congregate shelter) designed to provide temporary living accommodations;
(B) an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized;
(C) a temporary accommodation for not more than 90 days in the residence of another individual; or
(D) a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.” (7 USCS § 2012)
Legal Definition list
Related Legal Terms
- Affected Individual
- Aggrieved Individual [HUD]
- Authorized Individual [Energy]
- Chronically Homeless Person [HUD]
- Close Relative of an Individual
- Discrimination Against Handicapped Individuals [Aviation Law]
- Disinterested Individual
- Economically Disadvantaged Family or Individual
- Eligible Individual [Health and Welfare]
- Eligible Individual Account Plans (EIAP)
