(a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract to provide financial assistance in the form of grants-in-aid, loans or deferred loans to nonprofit corporations, as defined in section 8-39, to assist such corporations with the costs of administrative expenses and technical assistance associated with the development of housing for low and moderate income families and the elderly. In the case of a deferred loan, the contract shall require that payments on interest are due immediately but that payments on principal may be made at a later time.
(b) Any such grant-in-aid, loan or deferred loan shall be made only to a nonprofit corporation which has resources for the costs listed under subsection (a) of this section available from other sources in an amount equal to or greater than one hundred per cent of the proposed grants, unless a nonprofit corporation has been incorporated for less than two years, in which case the Commissioner of Housing may waive the requirements contained in this subsection.
(c) In determining the amount of a grant-in-aid, loan or deferred loan under this section, the Commissioner of Housing shall consider the number of dwelling units for low and moderate income and elderly persons which are being developed or rehabilitated in the project or projects for which financial assistance is being requested, provided no such grant-in-aid, loan or deferred loan shall be for an amount greater than one hundred thousand dollars.
(d) The Commissioner of Housing shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the purposes of this section. Such regulations shall include provisions to establish eligibility requirements for nonprofit corporations to receive financial assistance provided under this section, criteria which the commissioner shall use for awarding such financial assistance, the purposes for which such financial assistance may be used and the terms and conditions which the commissioner shall establish for nonprofit corporations which receive such assistance. Such regulations shall also include provisions requiring periodic reports to be submitted by such nonprofit corporations to the commissioner and requiring that a performance audit of such nonprofit corporations be conducted by an independent accounting or management consulting firm on an annual basis.
(P.A. 87-482, S. 1, 3; P.A. 92-166, S. 19, 31; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 92-166 amended Subsec. (a) to make loans and deferred loans a form of financial assistance available under the section and providing that payments on interest are due immediately but that payments on principal may be made at a later time and amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) to make technical changes consistent with the changes in Subsec. (a); P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs
Section 8-201. - Declaration of policy.
Section 8-206. - Duties of Commissioner of Housing.
Section 8-206c. - Effective date of Secs. 8-206b and 16a-45.
Section 8-208. - State grants-in-aid for housing code enforcement.
Section 8-208a. - Appeals from municipal housing code board decisions and enforcement. Cost.
Section 8-208b. - Neighborhood Housing Services Program Fund. State assistance. Definitions.
Section 8-208c. - Urban revitalization pilot program. Goals. Reports.
Section 8-209. - State grants-in-aid for demolition of unsafe structures; for urban beautification.
Section 8-209a. - State aid for relocation of buildings.
Section 8-213. - Housing site development agencies.
Section 8-214. - State financial assistance for housing site development projects.
Section 8-214b. - Housing land bank and land trust program: Definitions.
Section 8-214c. - Community Housing Land Bank and Land Trust Fund.
Section 8-214g. - Limited Equity Cooperative and Mutual Housing Fund.
Section 8-214h. - Regulations.
Section 8-215. - Tax abatement for housing for low or moderate-income persons.
Section 8-216a. - Capitalized value of net rental income, basis for property valuation.
Section 8-217. - Community housing development corporations.
Section 8-218b. - Bond issue. Housing Development Corporation Fund.
Section 8-218c. - Regulations.
Section 8-218f. - Community housing development corporations.
Section 8-218g. - Determination of interest rate on loans to housing development corporations.
Section 8-218h. - Task force on building accessibility. Annual report to General Assembly.
Section 8-219a. - Senior Citizen Emergency Home Repair and Rehabilitation Fund.
Section 8-219c. - Regulations.
Section 8-226. - Use of prior bond proceeds for redevelopment and urban renewal.
Section 8-228 to 8-238. - Relocation assistance.
Section 8-239. - Other powers of department or commissioner unaffected.