§ 11903. Eligible activities

• (a) 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) 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 1 1 See References in Text note below. 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.