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districts and providing evidence -based services to address the academic, social, emotional, and <br />mental health needs of students. <br />Finally, as described in the section Public Health, recipients can provide a broad range of <br />behavioral health services, including services for children and youth in schools, to respond to the <br />impacts of the pandemic on mental health and other behavioral health issues. When providing <br />behavioral health services, recipients may presume that the general public was impacted by the <br />pandemic and provide behavioral health services to members of the general public, including <br />children and youth in schools, without any further analysis of impacts of the pandemic on those <br />individuals and whether the service is responsive. <br />10. Promoting long-term housing security: affordable housing and homelessness. Under <br />the interim final rule, recipients may use SLFRF funds to provide a set of housing services to <br />communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Specifically, the <br />interim final rule provided that programs or services that address housing insecurity, lack of <br />affordable housing, or homelessness, were responsive to the negative economic impacts of the <br />pandemic when provided to disproportionately impacted households and communities. The <br />enumerated uses included supportive housing or other programs or services to improve access to <br />stable, affordable housing among individuals who are homeless and development of affordable <br />housing to increase supply of affordable and high -quality living units. Many recipients have <br />already announced plans to use SLFRF funds for affordable housing interventions in all of these <br />categories. Treasury received many comments asking for additional clarity or flexibility in these <br />uses. <br />102 <br />