Relates to loans by the housing trust fund corporation; provides that such loans may exceed the thirty year limit in instances where a lengthier period is necessary to provide for a loan term that is co-terminus with the terms of other financing or regulatory agencies participating in the project.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8427
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 17, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ -- (at request of the New York State
Homes and Community Renewal) -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to loans by
the housing trust fund corporation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1102 of the private housing
2 finance law, as amended by chapter 199 of the laws of 2008, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 1. Within the limit of funds available in the housing trust fund
5 account, the corporation is hereby authorized to enter into contracts
6 with eligible applicants for the furnishing by such applicants of hous-
7 ing for persons of low income. Each such contract shall provide that
8 eligible applicants rehabilitate or construct one or more projects or
9 convert one or more nonresidential properties. Such contracts may
10 provide for payments, grants or loans by the corporation for the activ-
11 ities to be carried out by the eligible applicant under the contract.
12 Such contracts shall provide that a private developer make an equity
13 investment of the greater of (i) two and one-half percent of project
14 costs or (ii) five percent of project costs less grants which are to be
15 applied to such costs. The foregoing shall not preclude a private devel-
16 oper from making a greater equity investment. Any payments, grants or
17 loans made by the corporation outstanding at the time of resale shall be
18 subject to repayment in whole or in part upon resale after termination
19 of the regulatory period and as otherwise provided therein. Such repay-
20 ment provisions may survive the end of the regulatory period. Such
21 contracts may provide that eligible applicants shall either (a) perform
22 activities specified under the contract themselves or (b) act as admin-
23 istrators of a program under which projects are rehabilitated or
24 constructed or nonresidential properties are converted by other eligible
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 applicants or (c) perform both such functions. In the case of a munici-
2 pality acting as an administrator, funds provided to such municipality
3 hereunder shall not be deemed to be municipal funds. The corporation
4 shall refer any request for payments, grants or loans from persons of
5 low income to eligible applicants in the area in which such persons
6 reside. Loans may be in the form of participation in loans including but
7 not limited to participation in loans originated or financed by lending
8 institutions as defined in section forty-two of this chapter, the state
9 of New York mortgage agency, the New York city housing development
10 corporation, the New York state housing finance agency or private or
11 public employee pension funds. Notwithstanding any other provision of
12 law, payments, grants and loans may be deposited by the corporation
13 directly with a lending institution at or before the time of initial
14 loan closing pursuant to an escrow agreement satisfactory to the corpo-
15 ration. Payments, grants and loans shall be on such terms and conditions
16 as the corporation, or the eligible applicant with the approval of the
17 corporation, as the case may be, shall determine. Payments, grants and
18 loans shall be used to pay for the actual and necessary cost of acquisi-
19 tion, construction, rehabilitation or conversion, provided that not more
20 than fifty percent of such payments, grants and loans received for the
21 rehabilitation, construction or conversion of a project may be used for
22 the cost of the project's acquisition and not more than ten percent of
23 such payments, grants and loans may be used for the rehabilitation,
24 construction or conversion of community service facilities and, provided
25 further, that payments, grants or loans shall not be used for (i) the
26 administrative costs of an eligible applicant except as otherwise
27 authorized by law, (ii) the cost of the acquisition, construction,
28 conversion or rehabilitation of residential units which, subsequent to
29 such acquisition, construction, conversion or rehabilitation, are to be
30 occupied by persons other than persons of low income, and (iii) the cost
31 of the acquisition, construction, conversion or rehabilitation of units
32 which, subsequent to such acquisition, construction, conversion or reha-
33 bilitation, are occupied or to be occupied for other than residential
34 purposes, except for community service facilities as described above. No
35 such payments, grants or loans shall exceed a total of one hundred twen-
36 ty-five thousand dollars per dwelling unit. Among the criteria the
37 corporation shall consider in determining whether to provide additional
38 funds are: average cost of construction in the area, location of the
39 project and the impact of the additional funding on the affordability of
40 the project for the occupants of such project. The length of any loan
41 provided under this article shall not exceed thirty years, except in
42 instances where a lengthier loan period is necessary to provide for a
43 loan term that is co-terminus with the terms of other financing or regu-
44 latory agencies participating in the project. No more than fifty percent
45 of the total amount originally appropriated pursuant to this article in
46 any fiscal year shall be allocated to projects located within any single
47 municipality. Of the amount originally appropriated to the corporation
48 in any fiscal year, no more than thirty-three and one-third percent
49 shall be allocated to private developers for projects within a city with
50 a population of one million or more. Of the amount originally appropri-
51 ated to the corporation in any fiscal year, no more than thirty-three
52 and one-third percent shall be allocated to private developers for
53 projects in the area outside cities with a population of one million or
54 more.
55 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.