Title 8 — Title 8: Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

Sec. 8-283. Declaration of policy. It is hereby found and declared that many Connecticut residents lack sufficient financial resources to make down payments or regular mortgage payments on private housing; that it is in the public interest to provide state financial assistance to…

Sec. 8-284. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (a) “Eligible family or person” means a family or person who lacks the amount of income necessary, to purchase safe and adequate housing without special financial assistance; (b) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Housing; (…

Sec. 8-285. Creation of “Housing Purchase and Rehabilitation Fund”. There is established a “Housing Purchase and Rehabilitation Fund”. Such fund shall be used to make loans authorized by this chapter. (P.A. 77-612, S. 3; P.A. 95-250, S. 27, 42; 95-309, S. 11, 12.) History: P.A. 9…

Sec. 8-286. Homeownership loan program. Lending guidelines and terms of loans. Residential mortgage guarantee program. (a) The authority shall administer, within the resources allocated by the State Bond Commission to the Department of Housing for the purposes of sections 8-283 t…

Sec. 8-286a. State or authority to share in appreciation of dwelling. Any contract for a loan to purchase a dwelling under section 8-286 may require that the state or the authority shall receive, in exchange for any such loan, a share in the appreciation of the dwelling or any in…

Sec. 8-286b. Mortgagee participation. (a) Mortgage loan guarantees issued by the commissioner under subsection (e) of section 8-286 shall be in the form of a guarantee from the commissioner to an approved mortgagee. Mortgagees may participate in the program by entering into a mor…

Sec. 8-286c. Amount of guarantee. Record of payments to honor guarantees. (a) The maximum amount of any guarantee issued by the commissioner under the provisions of subsection (e) of section 8-286, section 8-289 and sections 8-286b to 8-286d, inclusive, shall be in an amount equa…

Sec. 8-286d. Termination of loan guarantee. The commissioner may terminate any loan guarantee if the mortgagee misrepresents any information pertaining to the guarantee or fails to comply with any term of the mortgage guarantee agreement in connection with the guarantee of the un…

Sec. 8-286e. Affordability incentive zones. The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority may establish affordability incentive zones under the homeownership loan program established pursuant to sections 8-283 to 8-289, inclusive, to incentivize the purchase of dwellings situated in …

Sec. 8-286f. Small multifamily lending program. Lending guidelines. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 134, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority shall, within the resources allocated by the State Bond Commission to the Department of Housing, establish a small multi…

Sec. 8-287. Loan repayment. (a) Any loan contracted for pursuant to this chapter shall be secured by a subordinate mortgage on the dwelling purchased by the recipient of such loan. If the recipient of such loan assigns, transfers or otherwise conveys his interest in such dwelling…

Sec. 8-288. Issuance of bonds. The State Bond Commission shall authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series in accordance with section 3-20 and in a principal amount necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, but not in excess of an aggregate amoun…

Sec. 8-289. Adoption of regulations or written procedures. The commissioner may adopt regulations providing for financial qualifications of eligible families or persons, requirements and limitations as to adjustments of terms and conditions of repayment, funding priorities, guara…