Section 8-346. (Formerly Sec. 17b-814). – Rental assistance for low-income families living in newly created rental housing. Pilot program. Regulations.
(a) The Commissioner of Housing shall establish and implement a five-year pilot program of rental assistance for low-income families living in newly created privately-owned rental housing. For the purposes of this section, a low-income family is one whose income does not exceed sixty per cent of the area median income adjusted for family size in […]
Section 8-346a. (Formerly Sec. 17b-811a). – Transitionary rental assistance for private housing. Regulations. Hearing.
(a) The Commissioner of Housing shall implement and administer, within available appropriations, a program of transitionary rental assistance for private housing for persons who are employed at the time they leave the temporary family assistance program and who: (1) Have income which exceeds the payment standard under said program, or (2) are employed a minimum […]
Section 8-347. (Formerly Sec. 17b-804). – Rent bank program.
(a) The Commissioner of Housing shall establish and administer a rent bank program of grants to ensure housing for families whose income does not exceed sixty per cent of the median income in the state, including those receiving temporary family assistance, who are either at risk of becoming homeless or in imminent danger of eviction […]
Section 8-347a. (Formerly Sec. 17b-805). – Assessment and mediation program.
(a) The Commissioner of Housing shall establish and administer an assessment and mediation program for families at risk of becoming homeless or in imminent danger of eviction or foreclosure whose income does not exceed sixty per cent of the median income in the state. (b) After evaluation of the causes of the risk of becoming […]
Section 8-348. – Residence mobility counseling program.
(a) The Department of Housing shall, within existing resources of the department, establish a residence mobility counseling program to assist individuals or families in relocating their residences to higher opportunity areas through education and support services. The commissioner may contract with one or more nonprofit corporations to provide such residence mobility counseling. Individuals and families […]
Section 8-355. – Definitions.
As used in sections 8-355 to 8-359, inclusive: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Housing. (2) “Community housing development corporation” means a corporation which has qualified for assistance under section 8-217. (3) “Homeless person” means any person who does not have overnight shelter or sufficient income or resources to secure such shelter. (4) “Nonprofit corporation” […]
Section 8-356. – State financial assistance to community housing development corporation, municipal developer or nonprofit corporation for emergency shelters or rooming houses for homeless persons or mobile manufactured homes for use as transitional housing.
The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a community housing development corporation, a municipal developer or a nonprofit corporation providing emergency shelter services for homeless persons for state financial assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid, loan, deferred loan, loan guarantee or […]
Section 8-357. – State financial assistance to community housing development corporation, municipal developer or nonprofit corporation for transitional housing and support services.
(a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a community housing development corporation, a municipal developer or a nonprofit corporation for state financial assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid, loan, deferred loan, loan guarantee or interest subsidy for the cost of […]
Section 8-358. – Rental payments. Regulations.
(a) The maximum amount which a person or family residing in a dwelling unit in a project receiving financial assistance under sections 8-355 to 8-359, inclusive, shall pay as its contribution to the total rent for the dwelling unit shall be thirty per cent of the adjusted monthly income, as defined by the commissioner pursuant […]
Section 8-314. – Authorization of bonds and notes.
The provisions of the general statutes, and of any applicable special act or municipal charter, shall govern the proceedings, notices and approvals required for the authorization of any bonds or notes or any instrument as security therefor, issued pursuant to this chapter. (P.A. 79-596, S. 15, 17.)