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§5220b Multifamily mortgage resolution program

Title 12 › Chapter CHAPTER 52— - EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - TROUBLED ASSETS RELIEF PROGRAM › § 5220b

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Summary

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development must create a program to protect current and future tenants and at-risk apartment buildings. The program should try to keep these buildings financially stable. It can look at things like rental income and keeping enough operating reserves, keep Federal, State, and city subsidies at the levels in effect on July 21, 2010, provide money for repairs, and help willing owners sell to responsible new owners while keeping the units affordable. HUD may work with the Treasury, the FDIC, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and other federal agencies. “Multifamily properties” means buildings with 5 or more units. A person convicted within the last 10 years of felony larceny/theft/fraud/forgery, money laundering, or tax evasion cannot start receiving Making Home Affordable or other mortgage aid on or after 60 days after July 21, 2010. HUD must make procedures to enforce this and report to the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate about how it is being carried out.

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Title 12, §5220b

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(a)The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall develop a program under this subsection to ensure the protection of current and future tenants and at-risk multifamily properties, where feasible, based on criteria that may include—
(1)creating sustainable financing of such properties, that may take into consideration such factors as—
(A)the rental income generated by such properties; and
(B)the preservation of adequate operating reserves;
(2)maintaining the level of Federal, State, and city subsidies in effect as of July 21, 2010;
(3)providing funds for rehabilitation; and
(4)facilitating the transfer of such properties, when appropriate and with the agreement of owners, to responsible new owners and ensuring affordability of such properties.
(b)The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, in carrying out the program developed under this section, coordinate with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and any other Federal Government agency that the Secretary considers appropriate.
(c)For purposes of this section, the term “multifamily properties” means a residential structure that consists of 5 or more dwelling units.
(d)(1)No person shall be eligible to begin receiving assistance from the Making Home Affordable Program authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (12 U.S.C. 5201 et seq.), or any other mortgage assistance program authorized or funded by that Act, on or after 60 days after July 21, 2010, if such person, in connection with a mortgage or real estate transaction, has been convicted, within the last 10 years, of any one of the following:
(A)Felony larceny, theft, fraud, or forgery.
(B)Money laundering.
(C)Tax evasion.
(2)The Secretary shall establish procedures to ensure compliance with this subsection.
(3)The Secretary shall report to the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate regarding the implementation of this provision. The report shall also describe the steps taken to implement this subsection.

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The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, referred to in subsec. (d)(1), is div. A of Pub. L. 110–343, Oct. 3, 2008, 122 Stat. 3765, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 5201 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, and also as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and not as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which comprises this chapter.

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Section effective on the date on which final

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implementing such section take effect, or on the date that is 18 months after the designated transfer date if such

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have not been issued by that date, see section 1400(c) of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as an

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of 2010 Amendment note under section 1601 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. Definitions For definitions of terms contained in this section, see section 5301 of this title.

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12 U.S.C. § 5220b

Title 12Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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