585.4—Definitions.
The terms “adjusted income,” “community based organization,” “homeless individual,” “housing development agency,” “Indian tribe,” “individual who has dropped out of high school,” “institution of higher education,” “limited-English proficiency,” “low-income family,” “offender,” “State,” and “very low-income family” are defined in section 457 of NAHA.
The terms Secretary and 1937 Act are defined in 24 CFR part 5.
1992 Act means the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992.
Access to housing applies to Youthbuild implementation grants required to document that the program has access to the housing project(s) for young adult on-site training, e.g. program participants have permission to work on the housing site.
Applicable residential rental housing quality standards shall mean those standards of the applicable HUD or other Federal, State or local program providing assistance for residential rental housing involved in a Youthbuild implementation grant as used under section 455(a), Youthbuild Program Requirements, of the Act.
Applicant means a public or private nonprofit agency, including:
(2)
An administrative entity designated under section 103(b)(1)(B) of the Job Training Partnership Act;
(6)
A public and/or Indian housing authority and resident management corporations, resident councils and resident organizations;
(8)
Any other entity (including States, units of general local government, and Indian Tribes) eligible to provide education and employment training.
Combined Youthbuild application means the submission by an applicant of a single application to HUD for a planning and implementation grant request for one Youthbuild program.
Consolidated Plan means the document that is submitted to HUD that serves as the planning documents (comprehensive housing affordability strategy and community development plan) of the jurisdiction and an application for funding under any of the Community Planning and Development formula grant programs which is prepared in accordance with the process described in 24 CFR part 91.
Full-time participation for program eligible participants is limited to not less than 6 months and not more than 24 months.
Graduates are those participants who have completed the full-time education/on-site training components of a Youthbuild program and who are eligible to take advantage of meaningful opportunities in continued education, in owning their own businesses, in meaningful employment or in other means by which the participant can attain economic self-sufficiency.
Homeless Act means the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended, (42 U.S.C. 11301 et seq.).
JTPA means the Job Training Partnership Act (P.L. 102-235), as amended.
Participant means:
(2)
An exception of not more than 25 percent of all full-time participants is permitted for young adults who do not meet the program's income or educational requirements but who have educational needs despite attainment of a high school diploma or its equivalent.
Private nonprofit organization means any private nonprofit organization that:
(2)
Has no part of its earnings inuring to the benefit of any individual, corporation, or other entity;
(4)
Has an accounting system or has designated a fiscal agent in accordance with requirements established by HUD; and
Project-related restrictions mean Youthbuild housing restrictions applicable only in cases where a Youthbuild implementation grant is providing assistance to residential rental, transitional or homeownership housing projects for specific costs relating to property acquisition, architectural and engineering fees, construction, rehabilitation, operating costs, or replacement reserves.
Recipient means any entity that receives assistance under this part.
Related facilities include cafeterias or dining halls, community rooms or buildings, child care centers, appropriate recreation facilities, and other essential service facilities that are physically attached to the housing to be constructed or rehabilitated. Related facilities which stand alone are not appropriate construction sites for trainees.
Title IV means title IV of the National Affordable Housing Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 ).
Transitional housing means a project that has as its purpose facilitating the movement of homeless individuals and families to permanent housing within a reasonable amount of time (usually 24 months). Transitional housing includes housing primarily designed to serve deinstitutionalized homeless individuals and other homeless individuals with mental or physical disabilities and homeless families with children.
Useful life shall mean a period of 10 years upon construction completion and issuance of an occupancy permit applicable to a residential rental, transitional or homeownership property acquired, constructed or rehabilitated (including architectural and engineering fees), or maintained (i.e., operating costs or replacement reserves), in whole or in part, with Youthbuild implementation grant funds (as used in section 455(a), Youthbuild Program Requirements, of the Act).