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and the amount of the grant is a debt due to the Crown by the applicant for the purpose of section 85A(d)(i) of the Act.

Subpart 4—Transition to Alternative Housing Grant

29. Purpose of this subpart—The purpose of this subpart is to provide grants of non-recoverable financial assistance to certain tenants of social housing to assist them to move to alternative housing and help alleviate hardship by reducing the impact on their overall financial situation of that move.

30. Transition to alternative housing grant: eligibility—
    (1) An applicant who meets the residential criteria is eligible to be considered for a transition to alternative housing grant under this programme if the chief executive is satisfied that the applicant (whether alone or with any other person)—

(a) is a tenant of any social housing; and

(b) is, in the chief executive’s opinion having regard to sustainability, likely to be able to retain alternative housing; and

(c) has agreed with the chief executive and the social housing provider to voluntarily relinquish the tenancy of that social housing and move to alternative housing within a period not exceeding six months.

(2) Subclause (1) is subject to subclause (3) and clause 31.

(3) If more than one person is the tenant of the social housing—

(a) each of those tenants must meet the criteria in subclause (1), not be ineligible under clause 31, and agree as set out in subclause (1)(c); and

(b) only one transition to alternative housing grant may be made in relation to those tenants; and

(c) any transition to alternative housing grant granted under clause 6(1) is payable to the tenants as set out in clause 33.

31. Transition to alternative housing grant: ineligibility—An applicant is ineligible for a transition to alternative housing grant if—

(a) he or she is a tenant of any social housing whose housing eligibility has been reviewed under section 117(1)(b) of the HRTMA and the agency has determined that he or she is no longer eligible for social housing; or

(b) he or she has previously been granted a transition to alternative housing grant.

32. Transition to alternative housing grant: conditional grant—
    (1) The chief executive may, under clause 6(1), grant a transition to alternative housing grant to the applicant or applicants if the chief executive is satisfied that the applicant or applicants is or are eligible under clause 30 and not ineligible under clause 31.

(2) A transition to alternative housing grant pursuant to subclause (1) is a conditional grant and the amount of the grant is not payable unless the chief executive is satisfied that the following conditions have been met:

(a) the applicant has or (as the case requires) the applicants have fulfilled the agreement referred to in clause 30(1)(c) within the time so agreed; and

(b) all occupants of the social housing to which the agreement relates have vacated those premises.

33. Transition to alternative housing grant: amount and payment—The amount of a transition to alternative housing grant is a lump sum payment of $3,000.00 and is payable to the applicant or, if there is more than one applicant, to the applicants in equal shares.

Subpart 5—Tenancy Costs Cover

34. Purpose of this subpart—The purpose of this subpart is—

(a) to provide recoverable special assistance to people who are disadvantaged in the housing market to alleviate the hardship of meeting end-of-tenancy liability to their private sector landlords in excess of their bonds; and

(b) to thereby encourage private sector landlords to let housing to people disadvantaged in the housing market by providing assurance that end-of-tenancy costs will be met within specified limits.

35. Tenancy costs cover: eligibility—An applicant who meets the residential criteria is eligible to be considered for tenancy costs cover under this programme if the chief executive is satisfied that—

(a) the applicant (whether alone or together with any other person) is—

(i) a tenant of any social housing; or

(ii) a person who is awaiting allocation of social housing; or

(iii) a person who has contacted the department or the agency in regard to the person’s housing need; and

(b) the applicant is or is likely to be disadvantaged in the housing market; and

(c) the applicant is likely, in the chief executive’s opinion having regard to sustainability, to be able to retain alternative housing; and

(d) in the case of an applicant who has previously been granted tenancy costs cover, either—

(i) there is no decision pending or likely to be made under clause 36(2) to make payment of that grant on a claim for payment made within the time specified in clause 36(3)(g); or

(ii) the chief executive is satisfied that grant is not payable because one or more of the conditions for payment of that grant specified in clause 36(3) have not been met.

36. Tenancy costs cover: conditional grant—
    (1) The chief executive may, under clause 6(1), grant tenancy costs cover to an applicant if the chief executive is satisfied that the applicant is eligible under clause 35.

(2) A grant of tenancy costs cover is a conditional grant and the tenancy costs cover is not payable unless the chief executive is satisfied that the conditions set out in subclause (3) are met.

(3) The conditions referred to in subclause (2) are—

(a) the applicant (either alone or with other applicable persons) entered into a tenancy agreement for alternative housing within a period of three months after the applicant was notified in writing of the grant of tenancy costs cover and the conditions of the grant; and

(b) the landlord of that housing entered into that tenancy agreement on the basis of the assurance in that notification that the applicant has been granted tenancy costs cover; and

(c) the applicable persons in respect of the housing have paid a bond required by the tenancy agreement for that housing of an amount equal to four weeks’ rent for the housing; and

(d) the applicant and the landlord supplied a copy of the tenancy agreement and the receipt for the bond to