25 USC 4228 - Affordable housing activities

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 4228.

Affordable housing activities

(a)

 So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.

National objectives and eligible families

(1)

Primary objective

The national objectives of this subchapter are—

(A)

to assist and promote affordable housing activities to develop, maintain, and operate affordable housing in safe and healthy environments for occupancy by low-income Native Hawaiian families;

(B)

to ensure better access to private mortgage markets and to promote self-sufficiency of low-income Native Hawaiian families;

(C)

to coordinate activities to provide housing for low-income Native Hawaiian families with Federal, State, and local activities to further economic and community development;

(D)

to plan for and integrate infrastructure resources on the Hawaiian Home Lands with housing development; and

(E)

to—

(i)

promote the development of private capital markets; and

(ii)

allow the markets referred to in clause (i) to operate and grow, thereby benefiting Native Hawaiian communities.

(2)

Eligible families

(A)

In general

(B)

Exception to low-income requirement

(i)

In general

The Director may provide assistance for homeownership activities under—

(I)

section 4229(b) of this title;

(II)

model activities under section 4229(f) of this title; or

(III)

loan guarantee activities under section 1715z–13b of title 12 to Native Hawaiian families who are not low-income families, to the extent that the Secretary approves the activities under that section to address a need for housing for those families that cannot be reasonably met without that assistance.

(ii)

Limitations

(C)

Other families

Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Director may provide housing or housing assistance provided through affordable housing activities assisted with grant amounts under this subchapter to a family that is not composed of Native Hawaiians if—

(i)

the Department determines that the presence of the family in the housing involved is essential to the well-being of Native Hawaiian families; and

(ii)

the need for housing for the family cannot be reasonably met without the assistance.

(D)

Preference

(i)

In general

(ii)

Application

(E)

Use of nonprofit organizations

(Pub. L. 104–330, title VIII, § 809, as added Pub. L. 106–568, title II, § 203, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2885, and Pub. L. 106–569, title V, § 513, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2979.)

cite as: 25 USC 4228