§12773 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary can give education and support to help low-income homeowners and tenants, to strengthen community housing groups (including community land trusts) so they can keep, fix, and build homes for low- and moderate-income families, and to help women in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods take part in housing rehabilitation and construction. Money can pay for a range of things, such as running community housing groups, training and legal or engineering help, programs that teach or counsel homeowners and tenants, help with managing properties, ways to attract private money (like benevolent loan funds), starting local community banks or credit unions, and help for businesses and unions to train and hire women for construction jobs. Help for training women can use no more than 10 percent of the funds in that part and gets priority for certain HUD-owned housing projects. The Secretary must give money only by contracts. Contracts should go to nonprofit intermediary organizations that work in more than one community and that have experience helping local housing groups, or to another qualified organization if a local area needs it. No single contractor can get more than 40 percent of the yearly money or more than 20 percent of its operating budget. At least 25 percent of the funds each year must go to contractors that work mainly in one State, and HUD will try to fund contractors in each HUD region when applications are approved. A community land trust is a nonprofit group that keeps land owned forever, leases the land long-term, sells buildings to residents, and keeps a right to buy back buildings at a formula price so homes stay affordable, with local members and a board elected by them.

Title 42, §12773

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(a)The Secretary is authorized to provide education and organizational support assistance, in conjunction with other assistance made available under this part—

(1)to facilitate the education of low-income homeowners and tenants;

(2)to promote the ability of community housing development organizations, including community land trusts, to maintain, rehabilitate and construct housing for low-income and moderate-income families in conformance with the requirements of this subchapter; and

(3)to achieve the purposes under paragraphs (1) and (2) by helping women who reside in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods rehabilitate and construct housing in the neighborhoods.

(b)Assistance under this section may be used only for the following eligible activities:

(1)Organizational support assistance may be made available to community housing development organizations to cover operational expenses and to cover expenses for training and technical, legal, engineering and other assistance to the board of directors, staff, and members of the community housing development organization.

(2)Housing education assistance may be made available to community housing development organizations to cover expenses for providing or administering programs for educating, counseling, or organizing homeowners and tenants who are eligible to receive assistance under other provisions of this subchapter.

(3)Technical assistance, training, and continuing support may be made available to eligible community housing development organizations for managing and conserving properties developed under this subchapter.

(4)Technical assistance may be made available to increase the investment of private capital in housing for very low-income families, particularly by encouraging the establishment of benevolent loan funds through which private financial institutions will accept deposits at below-market interest rates and make those funds available at favorable rates to developers of low-income housing and to low-income homebuyers.

(5)Technical assistance may be made available to establish privately owned, local community development banks and credit unions to finance affordable housing.

(6)Organizational support, technical assistance, education, training, and continuing support under this subsection may be made available to community land trusts (as such term is defined in subsection (f)) and to community groups for the establishment of community land trusts.

(7)Technical assistance may be made available to businesses, unions, and organizations involved in construction and rehabilitation of housing in low- and moderate-income areas to assist women residing in the area to obtain jobs involving such activities, which may include facilitating access by such women to, and providing, apprenticeship and other training programs regarding nontraditional skills, recruiting women to participate in such programs, providing continuing support for women at job sites, counseling and educating businesses regarding suitable work environments for women, providing information to such women regarding opportunities for establishing small housing construction and rehabilitation businesses, and providing materials and tools for training such women (in an amount not exceeding 10 percent of any assistance provided under this paragraph). The Secretary shall give priority under this paragraph to providing technical assistance for organizations rehabilitating single family or multifamily housing owned or controlled by the Secretary pursuant to title II of the National Housing Act [12 U.S.C. 1707 et seq.] and which have women members in occupations in which women constitute 25 percent or less of the total number of workers in the occupation (in this section referred to as “nontraditional occupations”).

(c)The Secretary shall provide this assistance only through contract—

(1)with a nonprofit intermediary organization that, in the determination of the Secretary—

(A)customarily provides, in more than one community, services related to the provision of decent housing that is affordable to low-income and moderate-income persons or the revitalization of deteriorating neighborhoods;

(B)has demonstrated experience in providing a range of assistance (such as financing, technical assistance, construction and property management assistance, capacity building and training) to community housing development organizations or similar organizations that engage in community revitalization;

(C)has demonstrated the ability to provide technical assistance and training for community-based developers of affordable housing;

(D)has described the uses to which such assistance will be put and the intended beneficiaries of the assistance; and

(E)in the case of activities under subsection (b)(7), is a community-based organization (as such term is defined in section 4 of the Job Training Partnership Act) or public housing agency, which has demonstrated experience in preparing women for apprenticeship training in construction or administering programs for training women for construction or other nontraditional occupations (and such organizations may use assistance for activities under such subsection to employ women in housing construction and rehabilitation activities to the extent that the organization has the capacity to conduct such activities); or

(2)with another organization, if a participating jurisdiction demonstrates that the organization is qualified to carry out eligible activities and that the jurisdiction would not be served in a timely manner by intermediaries specified under paragraph (1).

(d)Contracts under this section with any one contractor for a fiscal year may not—

(1)exceed 40 percent of the amount appropriated for this section for such fiscal year; or

(2)provide more than 20 percent of the operating budget (which shall not include funds that are passed through to community housing development organizations) of the contracting organization for any one year.

(e)Not less than 25 percent of the funds made available for this section in an appropriations Act in any fiscal year shall be made available for eligible contractors that have worked primarily in one State. The Secretary shall provide assistance under this section, to the extent applications are submitted and approved, to contractors in each of the geographic regions having a regional office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

(f)For purposes of this section, the term “community land trust” means a community housing development organization (except that the requirements under subparagraphs (C) and (D) of section 12704(6) of this title shall not apply for purposes of this subsection)—

(1)that is not sponsored by a for-profit organization;

(2)that is established to carry out the activities under paragraph (3);

(3)that—

(A)acquires parcels of land, held in perpetuity, primarily for conveyance under long-term ground leases;

(B)transfers ownership of any structural improvements located on such leased parcels to the lessees; and

(C)retains a preemptive option to purchase any such structural improvement at a price determined by formula that is designed to ensure that the improvement remains affordable to low- and moderate-income families in perpetuity;

(4)whose corporate membership that is open to any adult resident of a particular geographic area specified in the bylaws of the organization; and

(5)whose board of directors—

(A)includes a majority of members who are elected by the corporate membership; and

(B)is composed of equal numbers of (i) lessees pursuant to paragraph (3)(B), (ii) corporate members who are not lessees, and (iii) any other category of persons described in the bylaws of the organization.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The National Housing Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(7), is act

June 27, 1934, ch. 847, 48 Stat. 1246. Title II of the Act is classified principally to subchapter II (§ 1707 et seq.) of chapter 13 of Title 12, Banks and Banking. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1701 of Title 12 and Tables. section 4 of the Job Training Partnership Act, referred to in subsec. (c)(1)(E), which was classified to section 1503 of Title 29, Labor, was repealed by Pub. L. 105–220, title I, § 199(b)(2), (c)(2)(B), Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1059, effective

July 1, 2000. Pursuant to former section 2940(b) of Title 29, references to a provision of the Job Training Partnership Act, effective Aug. 7, 1998, were deemed to refer to that provision or the corresponding provision of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Pub. L. 105–220, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 936, and, effective

July 1, 2000, were deemed to refer to the corresponding provision of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 was repealed by Pub. L. 113–128, title V, §§ 506, 511(a),

July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1703, 1705, effective

July 1, 2015. Pursuant to section 3361(a) of Title 29, references to a provision of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 are deemed to refer to the corresponding provision of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Pub. L. 113–128,

July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1425, effective

July 1, 2015. For complete classification of the Job Training Partnership Act and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to the Code, see Tables. For complete classification of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 3101 of title 29 and Tables.

Amendments

2009—Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 111–8, § 229(1), substituted “40” for “20”. Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 111–8, § 229(2), substituted “25” for “40”. 1992—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 102–550, § 213(a)(1), inserted “, including community land trusts,” after “organizations”. Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 102–550, § 213(b)(1), added par. (3). Subsec. (b)(6). Pub. L. 102–550, § 213(a)(2), added par. (6). Subsec. (b)(7). Pub. L. 102–550, § 213(b)(2), added par. (7). Subsec. (c)(1)(E). Pub. L. 102–550, § 213(b)(3), added subpar. (E). Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 102–550, § 213(b)(4), inserted at end “The Secretary shall provide assistance under this section, to the extent applications are submitted and approved, to contractors in each of the geographic regions having a regional office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.” Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 102–550, § 213(a)(3), added subsec. (f).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1992 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 102–550 applicable to unexpended funds allocated under subchapter II of this chapter in fiscal year 1992, except as otherwise specifically provided, see section 223 of Pub. L. 102–550, set out as a note under section 12704 of this title.

§12773 Housing education and organizational support