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198A.700 Definitions for KRS 198A.700 to 198A.730.
As used in KRS 198A.700 to 198A.730, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Homeless individual" means a person who:
(a) Lacks a fixed, regular, or adequate nighttime residence;
(b) Is at risk of becoming homeless in a rural or urban area because the
residence is not safe, decent, sanitary, or secure;
(c) Has as a primary nighttime residence a publicly- or privately-operated
shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations;
(d) Has as a primary nighttime residence a public or private place not
designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for
human beings; or
(e) Is a family or a person who does not have access to normal
accommodations due to violence or the threat of violence from a
cohabitant.
(2) "Nonprofit organization" means an organization duly organized and validly
existing as a not-for-profit organization under the laws of the Commonwealth,
any other state, or the United States and whose purpose includes the
development, construction, rehabilitation, or acquisition of housing.
(3) "Technical assistance" means activities that are directly related to a nonprofit
organization's ability to provide housing for very low-income persons in
assisted projects under KRS 198A.700 to 198A.730, and includes land use and
planning costs, design and engineering services, finance services, loan
packaging assistance, program development assistance, construction
consultation, and marketing assistance for developers, and budgeting
assistance, independent living skill development, homeownership, tenant
education, and self-sufficiency development for renters and homeowners.
(4) "Trust fund" means the affordable housing trust fund.
(5) "Very low-income" means the income of individuals or families that is below
sixty percent (60%) of the area median income for the Commonwealth as
determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
Effective:July 15, 1994
History: Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 206, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994.
Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 458, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992.
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