Sec. 8-357. State financial assistance to community housing development corporation, municipal developer or nonprofit corporation for transitional housing and support services.
Sec. 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 Economic and Community Development, 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 acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or
renovation of multifamily dwellings for persons and families whose adjusted monthly
income does not exceed fifty per cent of the median household income, as determined
by the commissioner, for the area in which they reside and who have received emergency
shelter services or shelter services for battered women and are in need of transitional
housing and support services for a period of six to twenty-four months. Such housing
and services shall be designed to enable such persons to maintain their current jobs,
improve their employment skills, retrain for different occupations or continue their education. Such services may include, without limitation, information and referral; counseling and support groups; aid in finding vocational training, education or employment;
health, nutrition, fitness and recreation programs; child care; transportation; legal aid;
and financial counseling. In the case of a deferred loan, the contract shall require that
payments on interest are due immediately but that payments on principal may be made
at a later time.
(b) The commissioner may consider, without limitation, the following criteria in
determining which project shall be eligible for assistance under this section: (1) Whether
the project has been approved by local planning and zoning commissions, (2) the amount
of resources which have been committed to the project by the private sector and the
municipality in which the project would be located, (3) the extent to which resources
of existing social services agencies are planned to be utilized, (4) the extent to which
both privacy and community living are planned for residents of the project, (5) whether
the project is capable of operating without ongoing state subsidies, and (6) the proximity
of the project to schools, potential employers, stores and transportation, medical, child
care and recreational facilities.
(P.A. 85-485, S. 3; P.A. 87-309, S. 3; 87-436, S. 21, 23; P.A. 92-166, S. 24, 31; P.A. 93-309, S. 28, 29; 93-435, S. 81,
95; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 06-93, S. 20.)
History: P.A. 87-309 made technical changes to Subsec. (a); P.A. 87-436 added provision in Subsec. (a) authorizing
state to enter into contracts with municipal developers; P.A. 92-166 amended Subsec. (a) to make deferred loans a form
of financial assistance available under the section and to provide that payments on interest are due immediately but that
payments on principal may be made at a later time; P.A. 93-309 added new Subsec. (c) prohibiting the commissioner of
housing, on and after July 1, 1994, or the effective date of regulations adopted under Sec. 8-437, from accepting applications
for housing developments that qualify for financial assistance under Sec. 8-433, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-435 amended
Subsec. (c) by deleting reference to "July 1, 1994," re the deadline for the receipt by the commissioner of housing of certain
applications for state financial assistance, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community
Development; P.A. 06-93 made a technical change in Subsec. (b) and deleted former Subsec. (c) re regulations and application to program repealed by the same act.