403A.6 Operation of housing not for profit.
It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that each municipality shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals or payments for dwelling accommodations at low rates consistent with its providing decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income, and that no municipality shall construct or operate any housing project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the municipality. To this end the municipality shall fix the rentals or payments for dwellings in its projects at no higher rates than it shall find to be necessary in order to produce revenues which, together with all other available moneys, revenues, income and receipts in connection with or for such projects from whatever sources derived, including federal financial assistance, will be sufficient to do all of the following:
1. To pay, as the same become due, the principal and interest on the bonds issued pursuant to this chapter.
2. To create and maintain such reserves as may be required to assure the payment of principal and interest as it becomes due on such bonds.
3. To meet the cost of, and to provide for, maintaining and operating the projects, including necessary reserves therefor and the cost of any insurance, and of administrative expenses.
4. To make such payments in lieu of taxes and, after payment in full of all obligations for which federal annual contributions are pledged, to make such repayments of federal and local contributions as it determines are consistent with the maintenance of the low-rent character of projects. Rentals or payments for dwellings shall be established and the projects administered, insofar as possible, so as to assure that any federal financial assistance required shall be strictly limited to amounts and periods necessary to maintain the low-rent character of the projects.
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §403A.6]
2008 Acts, ch 1032, §50
Referred to in §403A.7
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 403A - MUNICIPAL HOUSING PROJECTS
Section 403A.4 - Aid from federal government.
Section 403A.5 - Exercise of municipal housing powers — municipal housing agency.
Section 403A.6 - Operation of housing not for profit.
Section 403A.7 - Housing rentals and tenant admissions.
Section 403A.8 - Dwellings for disaster victims and defense workers.
Section 403A.9 - Cooperation between municipalities.
Section 403A.10 - Tax exemption and payments in lieu of taxes.
Section 403A.11 - Planning, zoning, and building laws — insulation requirements.
Section 403A.13 - Form and sale of bonds.
Section 403A.14 - Provisions of bonds, trust indentures, and mortgages.
Section 403A.15 - Remedies of an obligee.
Section 403A.16 - Additional remedies conferrable by a municipality.
Section 403A.17 - Exemption of property from execution sale.
Section 403A.18 - Transfer of possession or title to federal government.
Section 403A.19 - Certificate of state auditor.
Section 403A.20 - Condemnation of property.
Section 403A.21 - Cooperation in undertaking housing projects.
Section 403A.22 - Personal interest prohibited.
Section 403A.23 - Eligibility of persons receiving public assistance.
Section 403A.24 - Chapter controlling.