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S. B. No. 111 As Introduced
As Introduced
127th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2007-2008 |
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Cosponsors:
Senators Miller, D., Cafaro, Padgett
A BILL
To amend section 174.03 of the Revised Code to require the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to develop and implement a program to provide housing for low-income grandparents who are guardians of a grandchild, have legal custody of a grandchild, or adopt a grandchild after a parent's rights are terminated.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 174.03 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 174.03. (A) The department of development and the
Ohio
housing finance agency shall each develop programs under
which, in
accordance with rules adopted under this section, they
may make
grants, loans, loan guarantees, and loan subsidies to
counties,
municipal corporations, townships, local housing
authorities, and
nonprofit organizations and may make loans, loan
guarantees, and
loan subsidies to private developers and private
lenders to assist
in activities that provide housing
and
housing
assistance for specifically targeted low- and
moderate-income
families and individuals.
There is no
minimum housing
project size for awards under this division for
any project that
is developed for a special needs population
and that is
supported by a social service agency where the housing
project
is located. Activities for which grants, loans,
loan
guarantees, and
loan subsidies may be made
under this section
include
all of the following: (1) Acquiring, financing, constructing, leasing,
rehabilitating, remodeling, improving, and equipping publicly or
privately owned housing; (2) Providing supportive services related to housing and
the
homeless, including housing counseling. Not
more than twenty per
cent of the current year appropriation
authority for the low- and
moderate-income housing trust fund that remains after the award of funds made pursuant to divisions (A)(1), (A)(2), and (A)(3) of section 174.02 of the Revised Code,
shall be awarded in any fiscal
year for supportive services. (3) Providing rental assistance payments or other project
operating subsidies that lower tenant rents. (B)
Grants, loans, loan guarantees,
and loan
subsidies may
be
made to counties, municipal
corporations, townships, and
nonprofit
organizations for the
additional purposes of providing
technical
assistance, design and
finance services and
consultation, and
payment of pre-development
and administrative
costs related to any
of the activities listed
above. (C) In developing programs under this section, the
department and
the agency shall invite, accept, and consider
public
comment, and recommendations from the housing trust fund
advisory
committee created under section 174.06 of the Revised
Code, on
how the programs should be designed to most effectively
benefit
low- and moderate-income families and individuals. The
programs
developed under this section shall respond collectively
to
housing and housing assistance needs of low- and
moderate-income
families and individuals statewide. (D) The department and
the agency, in accordance with
Chapter
119. of the Revised Code, shall each adopt rules to administer programs developed under this
section.
The rules shall prescribe procedures and forms that
counties,
municipal corporations, townships, local housing
authorities, and
nonprofit organizations shall use in applying for
grants,
loans, loan
guarantees,
and loan subsidies and that private
developers
and private
lenders shall use in applying for loans, loan
guarantees, and loan
subsidies;
eligibility criteria for the
receipt of funds;
procedures for
reviewing and granting or denying
applications;
procedures for
paying out funds; conditions on the
use of funds;
procedures for
monitoring the use of funds; and
procedures under
which a
recipient shall be required to repay
funds that are
improperly
used. The rules shall do
both of the
following: (1) Require each recipient of a grant
or loan made
from
the
low- and moderate-income housing trust fund for
activities
that
provide, or assist in providing, a rental
housing
project, to
reasonably ensure that the rental housing
project
will remain
affordable to those families and individuals
targeted for
the
rental housing project for the useful life of the
rental
housing
project or for thirty years, whichever is longer; (2) Require each recipient of a grant
or loan made
from
the
low- and moderate-income housing trust fund for
activities
that
provide, or assist in providing, a housing
project to
prepare
and implement a plan to reasonably assist any
families
and
individuals displaced by the housing project in
obtaining
decent
affordable housing. (E) In prescribing eligibility criteria and conditions for
the use of funds, neither the department nor the agency is limited to
the criteria and conditions specified in this section and each
may
prescribe additional eligibility criteria and conditions that
relate to the purposes for which
grants, loans, loan guarantees,
and loan subsidies may be made. However, the
department and
agency are limited by the following specifically
targeted low-
and
moderate-income guidelines: (1) Not less than seventy-five per cent of the money
granted
and loaned under this section in any
fiscal year shall be
for
activities that provide affordable housing and housing
assistance to families and individuals whose incomes
are equal to or less than
fifty per cent of the median
income for
the county in which they live, as determined by the department under
section
174.04 of the Revised Code. (2) Any money
granted and loaned under
this
section in any
fiscal year that is not granted or loaned pursuant to division (E)(1) of this section shall be for activities
that
provide
affordable housing and housing assistance to
families
and
individuals whose incomes are equal to or
less
than
eighty per cent of the median income for the county in which they live, as
determined by the department under section 174.04 of the Revised
Code. (F) In making
grants, loans, loan guarantees,
and loan
subsidies under this section, the department and
the
agency shall
give preference to viable projects and activities
that
benefit those families and individuals whose
incomes
are equal to or less than
thirty-five per cent of
the median
income for the county in which they live, as determined by the department
under
section 174.04 of the Revised Code. (G) The department and
the
agency
shall monitor the programs developed under this section to
ensure
that money granted and loaned under this section is not
used in a
manner that violates division (H) of section 4112.02 of
the
Revised Code or discriminates against families with children. (H)(1) The Ohio housing finance agency shall develop and implement a program to provide housing for low-income grandparents and their minor grandchildren. The housing shall be located in complexes in which occupancy is limited to grandparents who meet one of the following requirements:
(a) Is a guardian for a grandchild as defined in division (A)(16) of section 2151.011 of the Revised Code;
(b) Has legal custody of a grandchild as defined in division (A)(19) of section 2151.011 of the Revised Code;
(c) Has adopted a grandchild after a parent's rights have been terminated.
(2) For the purpose of this division, "grandparent" means a parent of a child's parent, a parent of a grandparent, and any person the agency determines stands in the place of a grandparent.
Section 2. That existing section 174.03 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.
Section 3. The Ohio Housing Finance Agency shall implement the housing program developed pursuant to division (H) of section 174.03 of the Revised Code, as that section is amended by this act, within two years following the effective date of this section to the extent that the agency has entered into contracts with persons to provide the housing by that time.
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