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§ 583.300 24 CFR Ch. V (4-1 -05 Edition) (10) Sanitary condition, The housing for HUD approval to otherwise consult and any equipment must be maintained with homeless or formerly homeless in sanitary condition. persons in considering and making (11) Fire safety. (i) Each unit must in- policies and decisions. See also clude at least one battery-operated or § 583 .330(e) . hard-wired smoke detector, in proper (2) Each recipient of assistance under working condition, on each occupied this part must, to the maximum extent level of the unit. Smoke detectors practicable, involve homeless individ- must be located, to the extent prac- uals and families, through employ- ticable, in a hallway adjacent to a bed- ment, volunteer services, or otherwise, room. If the unit is occupied by hear- in constructing, rehabilitating, main- ing-impaired persons, smoke detectors taining, and operating the project and must have an alarm system designed in providing supportive services for the for hearing-impaired persons in each project. bedroom occupied by a hearing-im- (g) Records and reports. Each recipient paired person. of assistance under this part must keep (ii) The public areas of all housing any records and make any reports (in- must be equipped with a sufficient cluding those pertaining to race, eth- number, but not less than one for each nicity, gender, and disability status area, of battery-operated or hard-wired data) that HUD may require within the smoke detectors. Public areas include, timeframe required. but are not limited to, laundry rooms, (h) Confidentiality. Each recipient community rooms, day care centers, that provides family violence preven- hallways, stairwells , and other com- tion or treatment services must de- mon areas. velop and implement procedures to en- (c) Meals. Each recipient of assist- sure: ance under this part who provides sup- (1) The confidentiality of records per- portive housing for homeless persons taining to any individual services; and with disabilities must provide meals or (2) That the address or location of meal preparation facilities for resi- any project assisted will not be made dents. public, except with written authoriza- (d) Ongoing assessment of supportive tion of the person or persons respon- services. Each recipient of assistance sible for the operation of the project. under this part must conduct an ongo- (i) Termination of housing assistance. ing assessment of the supportive serv- The recipient may terminate assist- ices required by the residents of the ance to a participant who violates pro- project and the availability of such gram requirements. Recipients should services, and make adjustments as ap- terminate assistance only in the most propriate. severe cases. Recipients may resume (e) Residential supervision. Each re- assistance to a participant whose as- cipient of assistance under this part sistance was previously terminated. In must provide residential supervision as terminating assistance to a partici- necessary to facilitate the adequate pant, the recipient must provide a for- provision of supportive services to the mal process that recognizes the rights residents of the housing throughout of individuals receiving assistance to the term of the commitment to operate due process of law. This process, at a supportive housing. Residential super- minimum, must consist of: vision may include the employment of (1) Written notice to the participant a full- or part-time residential super- containing a clear statement of the . visor with sufficient knowledge to pro- reasons for termination; vide or to supervise the provision of (2) A review of the decision, in which supportive services to the residents. the participant is given the oppor- (1) Participation of homeless persons. (1) tunity to present written or oral objec- Each recipient must provide for the tions before a person other than the participation of homeless persons as re- person (or a subordinate of that person) quired in section 426 (8) of the McKin- who made or approved the termination ney Act (42 U.S .C. 11386 (g)) . This re- decision; and quirement is waived if an applicant is (3) Prompt written notice ofthefinal unable to meet it and presents a plan decision to the participant. 256