2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 13. Planning and Economic Development
201H. Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation
201H-206 Affordable homeownership revolving fund.
§201H-206 Affordable homeownership revolving fund. (a) There is established an affordable homeownership revolving fund to be administered by the corporation for the purpose of providing, in whole or in part, loans to nonprofit community development financial institutions and nonprofit housing development organizations for the development of affordable homeownership housing projects.
(b) Loans shall be awarded in the following descending order of priority:
(1) Projects or units in projects that are funded by programs of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development, and United States Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, wherein:
(A) At least fifty per cent of the available units are reserved for persons and families having incomes at or below eighty per cent of the median family income and of which at least five per cent of the available units are for persons and families having incomes at or below fifty per cent of the median family income; and
(B) The remaining units are reserved for persons and families having incomes at or below one hundred twenty per cent of the median family income; and
(2) Mixed-income affordable for-sale housing projects or units in a mixed-income affordable for-sale housing project wherein all of the available units are reserved for persons and families having incomes at or below one hundred per cent of the median family income.
(c) Moneys in the fund shall be used to provide loans for the development, pre-development, construction, acquisition, preservation, and substantial rehabilitation of affordable for-sale housing units. Uses of moneys in the fund may include but are not limited to planning, design, and land acquisition, including the costs of options, agreements of sale, and down payments; equity financing as matching funds for nonprofit community development financial institutions; or other housing development services or activities as provided in rules adopted by the corporation pursuant to chapter 91. The rules may provide that money from the fund shall be leveraged with other financial resources to the extent possible.
(d) The fund may include sums appropriated by the legislature, private contributions, proceeds from repayment of loans, interest, other returns, and moneys from other sources.
(e) An amount from the fund, to be set by the corporation and authorized by the legislature, may be used for administrative expenses incurred by the corporation in administering the fund; provided that moneys in the fund shall not be used to finance day-to-day administrative expenses of the projects allotted moneys from the fund.
(f) The corporation may provide loans under this section as provided in rules adopted by the corporation pursuant to chapter 91.
(g) The corporation may contract with nonprofit community development financial institutions to fund loans under this section. The corporation may contract for the service and custody of its loans.
(h) The corporation may establish, revise, charge, and collect a reasonable service fee, as necessary, in connection with its loans, services, and approvals under this part. The fees shall be deposited into the affordable homeownership revolving fund.
(i) The corporation shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session describing the projects funded using moneys from the affordable homeownership revolving fund. [L 2021, c 227, pt of §2]
