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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="6-509" title_number="6" title_name="Community Services" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Adult Services">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The General Assembly finds and declares that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an increasing number of adults in the State are unable, because of disability, to reside in the community without a supportive housing arrangement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>many of these adults are therefore homeless, unnecessarily institutionalized, or residing in substandard housing; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>current State-operated programs do not adequately address this problem.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>It is the policy of the State to encourage the development of affordable housing for adults who are unable to avail themselves of existing housing because of disability.</text>
  </level>
</section>
