§ 4228. Affordable housing activities
(a)
1 National objectives and eligible families
(1)
Primary objective
The national objectives of this subchapter are—
(A)
to assist and promote affordable housing activities to develop, maintain, and operate affordable housing in safe and healthy environments for occupancy by low-income Native Hawaiian families;
(B)
to ensure better access to private mortgage markets and to promote self-sufficiency of low-income Native Hawaiian families;
(C)
to coordinate activities to provide housing for low-income Native Hawaiian families with Federal, State, and local activities to further economic and community development;
(2)
Eligible families
(A)
In general
Except as provided under subparagraph (B), assistance for eligible housing activities under this subchapter shall be limited to low-income Native Hawaiian families.
(B)
Exception to low-income requirement
(i)
In general
The Director may provide assistance for homeownership activities under—
(III)
loan guarantee activities under section
1715z–13b of title
12 to Native Hawaiian families who are not low-income families, to the extent that the Secretary approves the activities under that section to address a need for housing for those families that cannot be reasonably met without that assistance.
(C)
Other families
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Director may provide housing or housing assistance provided through affordable housing activities assisted with grant amounts under this subchapter to a family that is not composed of Native Hawaiians if—
(D)
Preference
(i)
In general
A housing plan submitted under section
4223 of this title may authorize a preference, for housing or housing assistance provided through affordable housing activities assisted with grant amounts provided under this subchapter to be provided, to the extent practicable, to families that are eligible to reside on the Hawaiian Home Lands.
(E)
Use of nonprofit organizations
As a condition of receiving grant amounts under this subchapter, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, shall to the extent practicable, provide for private nonprofit organizations experienced in the planning and development of affordable housing for Native Hawaiians to carry out affordable housing activities with those grant amounts.
[1] So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.