Sec. 17b-814. (Formerly Sec. 8-346). Rental assistance for low-income families living in newly created rental housing. Pilot program. Regulations.
Sec. 17b-814. (Formerly Sec. 8-346). Rental assistance for low-income families
living in newly created rental housing. Pilot program. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Social Services 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
which such family lives, as determined by the commissioner. The commissioner shall
provide such rental assistance in order to encourage the creation of additional rental
housing.
(b) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Social Services,
may enter into a contract with the owner or developer of new rental housing to provide
rental assistance linked to a specific number of units in such housing which shall be set
aside for low-income families. Each contract to provide rental assistance for units set
aside for occupancy by low-income families under this section shall be for a period not
to exceed fifteen years and may provide that the state shall receive an equity interest in
such rental housing. The commissioner shall not provide rental assistance for more than
five hundred new rental housing units under the pilot program.
(c) The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of
chapter 54, to carry out the purposes of this section. Such regulations shall establish
maximum income eligibility guidelines for such rental assistance and criteria for determining the amount of rental assistance which shall be provided.
(P.A. 88-187; P.A. 93-262, S. 10, 87.)
History: P.A. 93-262 replaced commissioner of housing with commissioner of social services and deleted Subsec. (d)
re report to general assembly, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 8-346 transferred to Sec. 17b-814 in 1995.