ESG funds may be used to provide housing relocation and stabilization services and short- and/or medium-term rental assistance as necessary to help a homeless individual or family move as quickly as possible into permanent housing and achieve stability in that housing. This assistance, referred to as rapid re-housing assistance, may be provided to program participants who meet the criteria under paragraph (1) of the ``homeless'' definition in Sec. 576.2 or who meet the criteria under paragraph (4) of the ``homeless'' definition and live in an emergency shelter or other place described in paragraph (1) of the ``homeless'' definition. The rapid re-housing assistance must be provided in accordance with the housing relocation and stabilization services requirements in Sec. 576.105, the short- and medium-term rental assistance requirements in Sec. 576.106, and the written standards and procedures established under Sec. 576.400.