Requirements

To be eligible for HUD-VASH, you must meet the following criteria:

  • Need to be a VA health care eligible veteran and have served for 24 continuous months if he or she enlisted after September 7, 1980, or was put on active duty after October 16, 1981.

  • Meet the definition for homelessness as described by The McKinney Homelessness Assistance Act:

    1. Lacks an adequate, fixed, and regular night-time residence.

    2. Spends nights in a public or private place such as a car, abandoned building, bus station, airport, campground, or park.

    3. Lives in a shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations.

    4. Is in immediate danger of losing his or her current housing and has no secondary residence to move into, nor has a support network in which to find permanent housing.

  • Require case management services that address a substance abuse disorder, a physical disability, or a serious mental illness.