(a) In order to provide additional construction and permanent financing for housing in this state, the authority is authorized to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase, service and sell mortgages and to make loans directly upon the security of any mortgage, and to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase and sell participation sale certificates representing interests in mortgages, provided the underlying mortgage loans shall have been made and shall be used solely to finance or refinance the construction, rehabilitation, purchase or leasing of housing in this state, and provided further the aggregate amount of permanent mortgages, mortgage-backed securities and participation sale certificates representing interests in mortgages purchased, and permanent loans made by the authority which are not directly or indirectly insured or guaranteed by any department, agency, instrumentality of the United States of America, or public corporation chartered by the Congress of the United States, including but not limited to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or which are not insured or guaranteed by any department, agency or instrumentality of the state, any insurance company licensed to do business in the state and authorized to underwrite mortgage insurance or by the authority shall not at any one time exceed two billion two hundred fifty million dollars.
(b) For the purpose of encouraging balanced community development in urban areas and increasing the supply and availability of mortgage financing for the residents of urban areas, the authority is authorized to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase, urban area mortgages or to make loans directly upon the security of urban area mortgages or to make loans for, or to purchase, urban area mortgages under terms and conditions requiring the proceeds thereof to be used for the making of additional urban area mortgages, subject to the provisions of section 8-250.
(c) For the purpose of assisting Connecticut residents to purchase mobile manufactured homes to be located in a manufactured housing community, the authority shall set aside not less than two million dollars to be used to provide loans directly to such residents. Such loans shall not require the purchase of private mortgage insurance, and shall accept an annual renewable lease for the lot on which such home is located.
(1969, P.A. 795, S. 11; 1972, P.A. 208, S. 6; P.A. 74-104, S. 9, 12; P.A. 75-465, S. 3, 7; P.A. 76-3; 76-118, S. 4, 6; P.A. 82-49, S. 1, 2; P.A. 84-328, S. 1, 2; P.A. 87-313, S. 1, 2; P.A. 06-47, S. 1; 06-194, S. 8; P.A. 08-176, S. 3; P.A. 13-65, S. 1.)
History: 1972 act included construction financing, deleted limitation of provisions to low and moderate-income families and allowed mortgages and loans not insured by federal or state agencies up to $100,000,000 limit, previously all loans and mortgages had to be insured by federal agency; P.A. 74-104 added provisions concerning interests in mortgages and excluding loans by public corporations chartered by Congress from $100,000,000 limit; P.A. 75-465 increased loan limit to $200,000,000 and included mortgage-backed securities in limit; P.A. 76-3 excluded loans by insurance companies licensed in state from $200,000,000; P.A. 76-118 added Subsec. (b) re urban area mortgages; P.A. 82-49 increased the limit to $300,000,000; P.A. 84-328 increased loan limit to $500,000,000; P.A. 87-313 increased loan limit to $750,000,000; P.A. 06-47 amended Subsec. (a) to increase loan limit $1,000,000,000; P.A. 06-194 added Subsec. (c) re loans for mobile manufactured homes, effective July 1, 2006; P.A. 08-176 amended Subsec. (a) to raise cap from $1,000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 13-65 amended Subsec. (a) by changing $1,500,000,000 to $2,250,000,000 re limit on aggregate amount of mortgages not insured or guaranteed, effective July 1, 2013.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act
Section 8-241. - Short title: Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act.
Section 8-242. - Declaration of policy.
Section 8-242a. - Establishment of subsidiaries by authority.
Section 8-244a. - Commissioner of Economic Development to be member of authority.
Section 8-244b. - Establishment of State Housing Authority.
Section 8-244c. - State Housing Authority to be successor to Connecticut Housing Authority.
Section 8-244d. - Bonds, notes or other obligations.
Section 8-244e. - Definitions. Additional powers and duties of Commissioner of Housing.
Section 8-245. - State personnel may be board members of authority.
Section 8-246. - Executive director. Appointment and duties.
Section 8-248. - Perpetual succession of authority.
Section 8-249. - Quorum. Board action. Written procedures.
Section 8-250. - Purpose and powers of authority.
Section 8-252. - Issuance of bonds by authority.
Section 8-253. - Mortgage loans and insurance of mortgage payments.
Section 8-253a. - Additional loan conditions.
Section 8-254. - Applications for mortgage insurance.
Section 8-254a. - Tenant selection plans of mortgagors.
Section 8-255. - Mortgage insurance premiums.
Section 8-256. - Default by mortgagor and subsequent action.
Section 8-260. - Reports to Governor and General Assembly. Audit.
Section 8-261. - Pledge by state as to limitation or alteration of rights vested in authority.
Section 8-262. - Interpretation of powers.
Section 8-262a. - Penalty for false statement.
Section 8-263. - Provisions controlling over inconsistent law.
Section 8-264 and 8-265. - Purchase of or loans on mortgages insured by state agencies. Bond issue.
Section 8-265a. - Land of authority subject to local regulation.
Section 8-265b. - Tax-exempt status of authority. Payment in lieu of taxes.
Section 8-265bb. - Contract for state assistance to authority.
Section 8-265cc. - Definitions.
Section 8-265e. - Annual study of current market rent levels.
Section 8-265g. - Mortgage assistance for low or moderate income families or persons.
Section 8-265h. - Housing advisory panel.
Section 8-265hh. - Repayment agreement.
Section 8-265i. - Reverse annuity mortgage program.
Section 8-265ii. - Adoption of procedures.
Section 8-265jj. - Filing of notice of agreement to participate in program with the authority.
Section 8-265mm. - Pilot program of home purchasing assistance for police officers.
Section 8-265o. - Definitions.
Section 8-265oo. - Residential mortgage loan refinancing guarantee program.
Section 8-265p. - Residential mortgage refinancing guarantee program.
Section 8-265pp. - Mortgage assistance program for certain teachers.
Section 8-265q. - Mortgagee participation.
Section 8-265qq. - Assessment increase deferred for rehabilitated properties.
Section 8-265r. - Eligibility of loans.
Section 8-265rr. - Mortgage refinancing program for homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages.
Section 8-265ss. - Homeowner's Equity Recovery Opportunity loan program.
Section 8-265t. - Points. Annual premium.
Section 8-265tt. - Definitions.
Section 8-265u. - Termination of loan guarantee.
Section 8-265v. - Written procedures.