Conn. Agencies Regs. § 8-169w-3 - Eligibility

(a)Organizations

Organizations eligible to receive assistance under the Urban Homesteading Program include urban homesteading agencies, the community housing development corporation chartered under Section 8-218f of the Connecticut General Statutes, and any nonprofit corporation incorporated pursuant to Chapter 600 of the General Statutes, having as one of its purposes the construction, rehabilitation, ownership or operation of housing and having articles of incorporation approved by the Commissioner, which is an urban homesteader as defined in Section 8-169w-1(n) above.

(b) Property

Urban homestead property can be utilized by urban homesteaders and the community housing development corporation chartered under Section 8-218f of the Connecticut General Statutes for the following purposes:

(1) abandoned property may be used for rehabilitation activities;

(2) vacant municipally owned property may be used for construction activities.

(c)Urban Homesteaders

(1) Selection

The urban homesteading agency shall select from among applicants for urban homestead property those applicants who, in determination of the agency, can acquire the necessary financial and technical resources to rehabilitate or construct, own and manage urban homestead program property. Such property shall be offered to such qualified applicants in accordance with the following priorities:

(A) Persons displaced by governmental activities declaring in writing their intent to occupy the property for a period of not less than two years;

(B) low and moderate income families declaring in writing their intent to occupy the property for a period of not less than two years;

(C) families or persons declaring in writing their intent to occupy the property for a period of not less than two years;

(D) nonprofit community housing development corporations;

(E) any other qualified applicant, provided the urban homesteading agency has certified that no qualified urban homesteaders of higher priority have applied.

(2) Initial Occupancy

Initial occupancy income limits for homesteaders who are of low and moderate income shall not be in excess of 96% of the median income in the applicable Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area as published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Notes

Conn. Agencies Regs. § 8-169w-3

Effective March 28, 1989