427—23.2 (PL100-77) Definitions.
“CAA” means community action agency.
“Community action agency, community action program or eligible entity” means any organization which was officially recognized as a community action agency or a community action program under the provisions of Public Law 97-35, Subtitle B, as amended by Public Law 98-558 and Iowa Code section 216A.91.
“DCAA” means the division of community action agencies of the state department of human rights.
“EHP” means emergency community services homeless grant program.
“Homeless” includes an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is:
	  1. 	 A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill);
	  2. 	 An institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or
	  3. 	 A public or private sleeping place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
An inadequate nighttime residence shall be limited to those residences exhibiting one or more of the following conditions: overcrowding (1.01 or more persons per room); lack of complete plumbing for exclusive use (indoor flush toilet, piped hot and cold water, and bathtub or shower); lack of heat (during cold weather). The potential for these conditions to exist does not constitute inadequate housing.
“Near-homeless” means an individual who has received a notice of foreclosure or eviction.
“Poverty line” means the official poverty line established annually by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“Suspension” means temporary withdrawal of the eligible entity’s authority to obligate funds pending corrective action by the eligible entity.
“Termination” means permanent withdrawal of the eligible entity’s authority to obligate funds before that authority would otherwise expire. If an eligible entity’s authority to obligate funds is terminated, no funds may be obligated by the eligible entity after the effective date of the termination. It may also mean the voluntary relinquishment of this authority by the eligible entity.