§4228 Affordable housing activities

Summary

Creates national goals to support low-income Native Hawaiian families in getting safe, healthy, affordable housing. It aims to help build, keep, and run housing; improve access to private mortgages and self-sufficiency; link housing with federal, state, and local community and economic efforts; plan infrastructure on the Hawaiian Home Lands with housing; and promote private capital markets so they grow and help Native Hawaiian communities. Limits assistance mostly to low-income Native Hawaiian families. The Director may still help non‑low‑income Native Hawaiian families for homeownership under section 4229(b), for model activities under section 4229(f), or for loan guarantees under 12 U.S.C. 1715z–13b if the Secretary approves because the need cannot be met otherwise, and the Secretary must set limits on such help. The Director may allow a non‑Native family into assisted housing only if the Department finds their presence is essential to Native Hawaiian families and their housing need cannot be met otherwise. A housing plan under section 4223 may give preference to families eligible for the Hawaiian Home Lands, and the Director must follow that preference. As a condition of getting grants, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands must, when possible, have experienced private nonprofits carry out the affordable housing work.