§4228 Affordable Housing Activities

Summary

Sets national goals to help create, keep, and run safe, healthy, and affordable homes for low-income Native Hawaiian families. It also aims to improve access to private mortgage markets, help families become more self-sufficient, link housing with federal, state, and local economic and community work, plan infrastructure on Hawaiian Home Lands, and encourage the growth of private capital markets that can help Native Hawaiian communities. Limits most help to low-income Native Hawaiian families, but allows some exceptions. The Director may 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 section 1715z–13b of title 12 if the Secretary approves because the need cannot be met otherwise. The Secretary must set limits on how much help can go to families who are not low‑income. The Director may also house a non‑Native Hawaiian family if their presence is essential to Native Hawaiian families and no other housing will work. A housing plan under section 4223 can give preference, when possible, to families who are eligible to live on the Hawaiian Home Lands, and the Director must follow that preference. As a condition of getting grant money, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands should, as much as possible, use private nonprofit groups with experience in Native Hawaiian affordable housing to carry out the work.