Title 29, Public Planning and Development

The Governor shall cause to be issued, through the Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority in conjunction with the Virgin Islands Interagency Council on Homelessness and the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services, rules and regulations, not in…

There is hereby appropriated from any available balances in the General Fund of the Treasury of the Virgin Islands the sum of $150,000 which shall be transferred by the Governor out of the General Fund and deposited in the Special Fund in a Sub-Account to be known and designated …

1. Emergency Housing Fund shall be expended, in the discretion of the Governor:1. for construction and operation of emergency housing as authorized in sections 201–205 of this title; and2. for stimulation of private home construction through such programs or activities as the Gov…

All rentals or other revenues of the emergency housing program, and all collections resulting from activities for the stimulation of private home construction, shall be deposited in the Emergency Housing Fund and shall there be available for expenditure for the purposes of the Fu…

In accordance with the standards prescribed in sections 209a-209h of this title, occupants of single-family emergency housing units shall be eligible for a first priority to purchase said units.

Only those occupants who are issued certificates of eligibility shall be entitled to a first priority to purchase single-family housing units.

Before a certificate of eligibility shall be issued, the Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority in conjunction with the chairperson of the V.I. Interagency Council on Homelessness shall review the willingness of an occupant to purchase a single-family …

The Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority with the approval of the Governor is authorized with respect to the sale of emergency housing units:to issue certificates of eligibility as provided in sections 209a-209h of this title;to fix the purchase pric…

(a) The purchaser shall have the option to purchase the premises for cash or by a promissory note secured by a first priority mortgage on the premises. (b) The Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority may insert in the deed customary provisions which he …

An eligible occupant may elect to purchase the premises for cash or at any time after the execution of a contract of lease with an option to purchase, but the deed of conveyance shall prohibit the lease, sublease, sale or transfer by gift, or otherwise, of the emergency housing u…

No contracts shall be executed, nor shall any deeds be issued unless the Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority finds and certifies to the Governor that there are a sufficient number of multiple-family housing units available for the continued operatio…

(a) [Repealed.] (b) Nothing contained in sections 209a-209h of this title shall be construed or interpreted to require the Commissioner in making an initial assignment under the emergency housing program to choose between assignment of an occupant to a single-family unit or assig…

Lessees of emergency housing under the provisions of this chapter shall be eligible for a first priority to purchase housing units in any Government-sponsored housing project wherein housing units are available for sale.