Guarantee and commitment to guarantee loans for acquisition of property
Authority of Secretary; issuance of obligations by eligible public entities or designated public agencies; form, denomination, maturity, and conditions of notes or other obligations; percentage allocation requirements
Prerequisites
Payment of principal, interest and costs
Repayment contract; security; pledge by State
To assure the repayment of notes or other obligations and charges incurred under this section and as a condition for receiving such guarantees, the Secretary shall require the issuer to—
enter into a contract, in a form acceptable to the Secretary, for repayment of notes or other obligations guaranteed hereunder;
pledge any grant for which the issuer may become eligible under this chapter; and
furnish, at the discretion of the Secretary, such other security as may be deemed appropriate by the Secretary in making such guarantees, including increments in local tax receipts generated by the activities assisted under this chapter or dispositions proceeds from the sale of land or rehabilitated property.
To assist in assuring the repayment of notes or other obligations and charges incurred under this section, a State shall pledge any grant for which the State may become eligible under this chapter as security for notes or other obligations and charges issued under this section by any unit of general local government in a nonentitlement area in the State.
Pledged grants for repayments
Full faith and credit of United States pledged for payment; conclusiveness and validity of guarantee
Issuance of obligations by Secretary to Secretary of the Treasury to satisfy authorized guarantee obligations; establishment of maturities and rates of interest and purchase of obligations by Secretary of the Treasury
Federal taxation of guaranteed obligations; grants to borrowing entity or agency of taxable obligations for net interest costs, etc.; limitation on amount of grant; assistance to issuer in hardship cases
Omitted
Inclusion within gross income for purpose of chapter 1 of title 26 of interest paid on taxable obligations
Outstanding obligations; limitation; monitoring use of guarantees under this section
The total amount of outstanding obligations guaranteed on a cumulative basis by the Secretary pursuant to subsection (a) shall not at any time exceed $4,500,000,000 or such higher amount as may be authorized to be appropriated for sections 5306 and 5307 of this title for any fiscal year.
The Secretary shall monitor the use of guarantees under this section by eligible public entities. If the Secretary finds that 50 percent of the aggregate guarantee authority has been committed, the Secretary may—
impose limitations on the amount of guarantees any one entity may receive in any fiscal year of $35,000,000 for units of general local government receiving grants under section 5306(b) of this title and $7,000,000 for units of general local government receiving grants under section 5306(d) of this title; or
request the enactment of legislation increasing the aggregate limitation on guarantees under this section.
Purchase of guaranteed obligations by Federal Financing Bank
Limitation on imposition of fee or charge
State assistance in submission of applications
“Eligible public entity” defined
Training and information activities relating to home guarantee program
The Secretary, in cooperation with eligible public entities, shall carry out training and information activities with respect to the guarantee program under this section. Such activities shall commence not later than 1 year after
The Secretary may use amounts set aside under section 5307 of this title to carry out this subsection.
Economic development grants
Authorization
Eligible activities
Applications
Selection criteria
The Secretary shall establish criteria for awarding assistance under this subsection. Such criteria shall include—
the extent of need for such assistance;
the level of distress in the community to be served and in the jurisdiction applying for assistance;
the quality of the plan proposed and the capacity or potential capacity of the applicant to successfully carry out the plan; and
such other factors as the Secretary determines to be appropriate.
Guarantee of obligations backed by loans
Authority
The Secretary may, upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary considers appropriate, guarantee the timely payment of the principal of and interest on such trust certificates or other obligations as may—
be offered by the Secretary or by any other offeror approved for purposes of this subsection by the Secretary; and
be based on and backed by a trust or pool composed of notes or other obligations guaranteed or eligible for guarantee by the Secretary under this section.
Full faith and credit
Subrogation
Effect of laws
No State or local law, and no Federal law, shall preclude or limit the exercise by the Secretary of—
the power to contract with respect to public offerings and other sales of notes, trust certificates, and other obligations guaranteed under this section upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary deems appropriate;
the right to enforce any such contract by any means deemed appropriate by the Secretary; and
any ownership rights of the Secretary, as applicable, in notes, certificates, or other obligations guaranteed under this section, or constituting the trust or pool against which trust certificates, or other obligations guaranteed under this section, are offered.
Source
(Pub. L. 93–383, title I, § 108,Notes
References in Text
Codification
Amendments
Effective Date of 1996 Amendment
Effective Date of 1994 Amendment
Effective Date of 1986 Amendment
Effective Date of 1983 Amendment
Effective Date of 1981 Amendment
Effective Date of 1977 Amendment
Regulations
issue proposed regulations not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [
issue final regulations not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.”
Community Development Loan Guarantees
Purposes.—
The purposes of the amendments made by this section [amending this section and section 5313 of this title] are—
to reaffirm the commitment of the Federal Government to assist local governments in their efforts in stimulating economic and community development activities needed to combat severe economic distress and to help in promoting economic development activities needed to aid in economic recovery; and
to promote revitalization and development projects undertaken by local governments that principally benefit persons of low and moderate income, the elimination of slums and blight, and to meet urgent community needs, with special priority for projects located in areas designated as enterprise zones by the Federal Government or by any State.
Objectives.—
In order to further the purpose described in paragraph (1), activities undertaken pursuant to the amendments made by this section shall be directed toward meeting the objectives set forth in sections 101(c) and 104(b)(3) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301(c) and 5304(b)(3)) and the additional objectives of—
encouraging local governments to establish public-private partnerships;
preserving housing affordable for persons of low and moderate income; and
creating permanent employment opportunities, primarily for persons of low and moderate income.”