Section 604 of the Veterans’ Mental Health and Other Care Improvements Act of 2008, Public Law (P.L.) 110-387, authorized the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop the SSVF program. The program is a critical new component within VA’s continuum of homeless services. The SSVF program’s purpose is to provide grants to private non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives that will coordinate or provide supportive services to very low-income Veteran families in need of homelessness prevention assistance to avoid literal homelessness or rapid re-housing assistance to end current homelessness. The SSVF program’s statutory authority is codified at section 2044 of chapter 20 of title 38, United States Code (U.S.C.), and its regulatory authority is codified at part 62 of chapter I, title 38, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).