; (4) to provide flexible and appropriate access to temporary shelter; (5) to build and maintain new forms of safe and sanitary shelters, including tiny homes; and (6) to provide supports, including shelter, transitional housing, and specialized medical respite shelter and associated services to homeless or housing-unstable (as such term is defined in section 2 of the Housing Is a Human Right Act of 2023 ) elderly persons, persons with disabilities, and persons who are or have been sick or injured, and to persons are who are being discharged or who have recently been discharged from hospitals, nursing facilities or similar facilities . (d) Distribution of amounts Paragraph (2) of section 316(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11346(a)(2) ) is amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: , which shall provide for consideration of regional variation in housing costs and costs of living, rates of homelessness and housing instability, and income inequality . (e) Appropriate non-Discrimination policy (1) National and local boards Section 301 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11331 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (f) Appropriate non-Discrimination policy The National Board shall— (1) at all times having in effect a policy that prohibits discrimination against persons in all classes provided protection against discrimination under Federal law and explicitly prohibits discrimination based on the gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, regardless of the individual’s designated sex at birth; and (2) require each local board designated pursuant to section 302 to have in effect a policy described in paragraph (1) of this subsection. . (2) Service providers Subsection (a) of section 316 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11346(a) ) is amended— (A) in paragraph (5), by striking and at the end