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Definition: Special Needs Population Low income Tennesseans who face extraordinary barriers when seeking to obtain or maintain adequate affordable housing that is appropriate to their needs. These Tennesseans cope with physical, emotional and/or social obstacles that intensify difficulties in securing and sustaining acceptable low income housing. The establishment of a housing trust fund would allow assistance to be rendered to special needs populations without the required constraints of other sources of funding. Funding secured through the Housing Trust Fund would encourage the provision of supportive services by allowing suitable services to be counted as matching funds. |