42 U.S.C. § 11903: Eligible activities

(a) Public and assisted housingGrants 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) Other PHA-owned housingNotwithstanding 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 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.