California Code of Regulations
Title 25 - Housing and Community Development
Division 1 - Housing and Community Development
Chapter 7 - Department of Housing and Community Development Programs
Subchapter 5.5 - Special User Housing Rehabilitation Program
Section 7452 - Definitions
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
"Affordable rent" shall mean affordable rents for low and very low income households as defined in Section 6922.
"Deferred payment loan" means a loan for rehabilitation or acquisition and rehabilitation of rental housing developments made from the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund.
"Department" means the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
"Director" means the Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
"Elderly" means a single person or a household as defined in Section 50067 of the Health and Safety Code.
"Eligible household," for purposes of this subchapter means persons of low or very low income, when pertaining to residential hotels; and elderly and handicapped persons of low or very low income, when pertaining to other rental housing developments.
"Fair Rate of Return" means an annual amount of return on investment no greater than 8 percent of the sponsor's actual investment (excluding unaccrued liabilities of the sponsor) in the rental housing development.
"Fund" means the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund.
"Gross Income" means the income of a person or family as defined in Section 6914.
"Handicapped" means a family in which the head of household is suffering from an orthopedic disability impairing personal mobility or a physical disability affecting his or her ability to obtain employment or a single person with such a physical disability, where the family or person requires special care or facilities in the home. "Handicapped" also includes a family in which the head of household suffers from a developmental disability specified in Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4512(a) or a mental disorder which would render him or her eligible to participate in programs of rehabilitation or social services conducted by or on behalf of a public agency, or a single person with such a developmental disability or mental disorder.
"Head of Household" means an individual who actually supports and maintains in one household one or more individuals who are closely connected with him or by her by blood relationship, relationship by marriage, or by adoption, and whose right to exercise family control and provide for the dependent individuals is based upon some moral or legal obligation.
"Loan Committee" means the Rehabilitation and Housing Assistance Loan and Grant Committee established pursuant to Section 6902(d).
"Low income" means the income limit established by Section 6298.
"Net income" means the income of a person or family as defined in Section 6916.
"Non-profit corporation" means a corporation organized and incorporated pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 5110) of Division 2 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code or subject to said Part pursuant to Section 5003 of the Corporations Code.
"Regulatory agreement" means that document or documents entered into between the sponsor and the Department which governs the rights and obligations of the department, sponsor and existing prospective tenants of the rental housing development, and contains other provisions necessary to carry out the purposes of this program.
"Rehabilitation" means repairs and improvements to a substantial residential property or structure necessary to meet applicable building and housing codes and unit/room composition changes permitted pursuant to this subchapter. "Rehabilitation" shall also include retrofitting for accessibility and use by the elderly and handicapped.
"Rent" means the total of monthly payments for occupying a unit in a rental housing development, as defined in Section 6918.
"Rental housing development" means a rental structure or structures containing five or more rental dwelling units, provided each unit is equipped with a kitchen and bathroom. It also shall mean:
(1) a structure or structures where five or more handicapped individuals reside in a group living arrangement; and
(2) a residential hotel.
"Residential hotel" means any building containing six or more rooms intended or designed to be used for, or which are occupied for, sleeping purposes by tenants, which is also the primary residence of these tenants, provided that a majority of these rooms are residential hotel units.
"Residential hotel unit" means a room in a residential hotel used or intended or designed to be used as a primary residence, which is subject to the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1940) of Title 5 of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, but which lacks either or both a self-contained kitchen or bathroom.
"Rural area" means an area meeting the requirements of Section 50101 of the Health and Safety Code.
"Sponsor" means an entity meeting the requirements of Section 50069(c) of the Health and Safety Code.
"Substandard rental housing development" means a structure or structures used or intended to be used as a rental housing development which does not meet applicable local or State building or housing standards adopted pursuant to the State Housing Law, Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 17910) of Division 13 of the Health and Safety Code and specifically Section 17958.8
"Very low income" means the income limit established by Section 6926.
1. Amendment filed 4-5-84; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84, No. 14).
2. Amendment filed 6-9-87; operative 7-9-87 (Register 87, No. 25).
Note: Authority cited: Section 50662, Health and Safety Code; Reference: Sections 5052.5, 50064, 50067, 50072, 50079.5, 50091, 50101, 50669 and 50670, Health and Safety Code.
