PRINTER'S NO. 2174
No. 1704 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY F. E. TAYLOR, BURD, SEVENTY, MURPHY, DUFFY AND
L. E. SMITH, OCTOBER 2, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AND COMMERCE, OCTOBER 2, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 20, 1949 (P.L.1633, No.493), entitled,
2 as reenacted and amended, "An act providing and regulating
3 State assistance for housing and redevelopment, including
4 comprehensive programs for the development of entire sections
5 or neighborhoods; and making an appropriation," further
6 providing for grant authorizations.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 4 of the act of May 20, 1949 (P.L.1633,
10 No.493), known as the Housing and Redevelopment Assistance Law,
11 reenacted and amended April 12, 1956 (1955 P.L.1449, No.477) and
12 amended December 16, 1968 (P.L.1219, No.385), is amended to
13 read:
14 Section 4. Grant Authorization.--The department is hereby
15 authorized, within the limitations hereinafter provided, (a) to
16 make capital grants in the furtherance of housing development
17 and to assist the construction and operating of housing projects
18 through the payment of such grants by contracting with
19 governmental agencies or authorities such as housing authorities
1 and urban redevelopment authorities, or with limited dividend
2 housing corporations, insurance companies, or any other private,
3 public or semi-public agencies, firms or corporations providing
4 adequate surety, acceptable to the department, guaranteeing
5 continuity of operation throughout the term of its contract, and
6 (b) to make capital grants to redevelopment authorities in the
7 furtherance of redevelopment, (c) to make capital grants to
8 municipalities [or to], redevelopment authorities or nonprofit
9 corporations for the prevention and elimination of blight, and
10 (d) to make capital grants to governmental agencies or
11 authorities, or nonprofit corporations for the purpose of
12 providing funds, which would be otherwise unavailable to
13 initiate, apply for, administer, and execute housing projects
14 financed under any Federal housing program, said housing
15 projects to be built and operated in accordance with Federal law
16 and regulations and shall not be bound by the conditions
17 attached to housing projects pursuant to section 4 (a), and said
18 grant shall not exceed ten per cent of the total cost of a
19 proposed project, and (e) to make capital grants to governmental
20 agencies or authorities, or nonprofit corporations for the
21 purpose of acquiring single family dwelling units which are in a
22 state of disrepair, and to rehabilitate said dwelling units and
23 to sell these dwelling units to persons or families whose income
24 is not higher than the highest annual income level in the lower
25 or middle third of nonfarm family incomes, and whose financial
26 resources would be insufficient to purchase said dwelling unit
27 after rehabilitation without the assistance provided by this
28 act, purchaser's income to be considered insufficient in cases
29 where more than twenty per cent of said income would be required
30 for debt service to liquidate the mortgage; the resale price for
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1 the rehabilitated dwelling unit shall not be less than the cost
2 of initial acquisition, nor more than the cost of acquisition
3 and rehabilitation; programs under this subsection 4 (e) shall
4 not be bound by the conditions attached to housing projects
5 produced under subsection 4 (a), and (f) to cooperate with and
6 make exchanges of the use of personnel, or funds with other
7 departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the Commonwealth
8 in the execution of housing functions delegated to said
9 departments, agencies, or instrumentalities by the General
10 Assembly.
11 There shall be no discrimination against any person because
12 of race, color, religion or national origin in the rental or
13 occupancy of any housing constructed under the provisions of
14 this act.
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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