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PA HB1940

Establishing the Housing Construction Loan Program and the Housing Construction Loan Fund; and providing for duties of Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.


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Introduced
01/03/2024
In Committee
01/03/2024
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
12/31/2024

Introduced Session

2023-2024 Regular Session

Bill Summary

Amending the act of December 3, 1959 (P.L.1688, No.621), entitled "An act to promote the health, safety and welfare of the people of the Commonwealth by broadening the market for housing for persons and families of low and moderate income and alleviating shortages thereof, and by assisting in the provision of housing for elderly persons through the creation of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency as a public corporation and government instrumentality; providing for the organization, membership and administration of the agency, prescribing its general powers and duties and the manner in which its funds are kept and audited, empowering the agency to make housing loans to qualified mortgagors upon the security of insured and uninsured mortgages, defining qualified mortgagors and providing for priorities among tenants in certain instances, prescribing interest rates and other terms of housing loans, permitting the agency to acquire real or personal property, permitting the agency to make agreements with financial institutions and Federal agencies, providing for the purchase by persons of low and moderate income of housing units, and approving the sale of housing units, permitting the agency to sell housing loans, providing for the promulgation of regulations and forms by the agency, prescribing penalties for furnishing false information, empowering the agency to borrow money upon its own credit by the issuance and sale of bonds and notes and by giving security therefor, permitting the refunding, redemption and purchase of such obligations by the agency, prescribing remedies of holders of such bonds and notes, exempting bonds and notes of the agency, the income therefrom, and the income and revenues of the agency from taxation, except transfer, death and gift taxes; making such bonds and notes legal investments for certain purposes; and indicating how the act shall become effective," establishing the Housing Construction Loan Program and the Housing Construction Loan Fund; and providing for duties of Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.

AI Summary

This bill establishes the Housing Construction Loan Program and the Housing Construction Loan Fund within the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. The program provides loans to eligible builders for the construction of new housing units for sale to low-income and moderate-income persons or families. The bill also allows the agency to provide loans directly to low-income and moderate-income individuals for the long-term financing of these new housing units. The program is funded through appropriations by the General Assembly, other grant sources, and repayments of principal and interest on the loans made under the program.

Committee Categories

Housing and Urban Affairs

Sponsors (17)

Last Action

Referred to HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (on 01/03/2024)

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