The Legislature finds that there exists currently within the Virgin Islands a serious emergency with respect to the housing of a large number of persons and families, who, because of circumstances beyond their control, are being obliged to vacate premises rented by them for their homes and who are unable to find other housing accommodations. […]
(a) The Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority in conjunction with the V.I. Interagency Council on Homelessness and the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services shall cooperate in the preparation of plans, construction and maintenance of buildings, and administration of emergency housing to be made available for the accommodation of persons or families living in […]
For the purpose of providing sites for emergency housing under sections 201–205 of this title, the Governor is authorized to use any available lands or buildings owned by the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, not otherwise devoted to a public use, or to acquire by lease, purchase, exchange, donation, devise, or by the […]
The Governor shall cause to be issued, through the Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority in conjunction with the Virgin Islands Interagency Council on Homelessness and the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law or other rules and regulations, authorized by law, for carrying into […]
There is hereby appropriated from any available balances in the General Fund of the Treasury of the Virgin Islands the sum of $150,000 which shall be transferred by the Governor out of the General Fund and deposited in the Special Fund in a Sub-Account to be known and designated as the “Emergency Housing Fund”.
Emergency Housing Fund shall be expended, in the discretion of the Governor: 1. for construction and operation of emergency housing as authorized in sections 201–205 of this title; and 2. for stimulation of private home construction through such programs or activities as the Governor may authorize and by such departments or agencies as he may […]
All rentals or other revenues of the emergency housing program, and all collections resulting from activities for the stimulation of private home construction, shall be deposited in the Emergency Housing Fund and shall there be available for expenditure for the purposes of the Fund set forth in sections 206–209 of this title.
In accordance with the standards prescribed in sections 209a-209h of this title, this Act, occupants of single-family emergency housing units shall be eligible for a first priority to purchase said units.
Only those occupants who are issued certificates of eligibility shall be entitled to a first priority to purchase single-family housing units.
Before a certificate of eligibility shall be issued, the Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority in conjunction with the chairperson of the V.I. Interagency Council on Homelessness shall review the willingness of an occupant to purchase a single-family housing unit together with his ability to make the required payments.
The Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority with the approval of the Governor is authorized with respect to the sale of emergency housing units: to issue certificates of eligibility as provided in sections 209a-209h of this title; to fix the purchase price which shall be fair and reasonable taking into consideration among […]
(a) The purchaser shall have the option to purchase the premises for cash or by a promissory note secured by a first priority mortgage on the premises. (b) The Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority may insert in the deed customary provisions which he deems advisable, but every deed shall prohibit the […]
An eligible occupant may elect to purchase the premises for cash or at any time after the execution of a contract of lease with an option to purchase, but the deed of conveyance shall prohibit the lease, sublease, sale or transfer by gift, or otherwise, of the emergency housing unit for a period of 20 […]
No contracts shall be executed, nor shall any deeds be issued unless the Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority finds and certifies to the Governor that there are a sufficient number of multiple-family housing units available for the continued operation of the emergency housing programs.
(a) [Repealed.] (b) Nothing contained in sections 209a-209h of this title shall be construed or interpreted to require the Commissioner in making an initial assignment under the emergency housing program to choose between assignment of an occupant to a single-family unit or assignment of an occupant to a multiple-family unit.
Lessees of emergency housing under the provisions of this chapter shall be eligible for a first priority to purchase housing units in any Government-sponsored housing project wherein housing units are available for sale.
