PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary can give education and organizational help to support low-income homeowners and tenants, to help community housing groups (including community land trusts) keep, fix, or build homes for low- and moderate-income families, and to help women in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods learn skills and take part in housing rehabilitation and construction. That help can pay for things like running and training costs for community housing groups, programs that teach or counsel homeowners and tenants, technical help for managing properties, ways to attract private loans at below-market rates, help to start community banks or credit unions, support for land trusts, and training and job help for women (up to 10% of the funds for those activities). The funds must be given by contract, usually to nonprofit intermediaries that work in more than one community and have experience in housing, training, and technical aid; a local group can be used if the area proves it needs one and certifies the work fits its housing plan. No single contractor may get more than 40% of the money in a year or more than 20% of its operating budget from these funds, and at least 25% of the money each year must go to contractors that work mainly in one State.

Title 42, §12773

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(a)In general

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)Eligible activities

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

(1)Organizational support

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

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)Program-wide support of nonprofit development and management

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)Benevolent loan funds

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)Community development banks and credit unions

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

(6)Community land trusts

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 section 12704 of this title) and to community groups for the establishment of community land trusts.

(7)Facilitating women in homebuilding professions

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)Delivery of assistance

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).

Contracts under paragraph (2) shall be for activities specified in an application from the participating jurisdiction, which application shall include a certification that the activities are necessary to the effective implementation of the participating jurisdiction’s housing strategy.

(d)Limitations

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)Single-State contractors

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.

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

2026—Subsec. (b)(6). Pub. L. 119–101, § 501(v)(12)(A), substituted “to community land trusts (as such term is defined in section 12704 of this title)” for “to community land trusts (as such term is defined in subsection (f))”. Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 119–101, § 501(v)(12)(B), struck out subsec. (f) which defined “community land trust”. 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