§ 13 §1764 — Housing assistance programs

1.
Program inclusion.
Housing cooperatives and residents of housing cooperatives as classified or categorized in subsection 2 as owners, landlords, tenants or renters must be considered for eligibility as owners, landlords, tenants or renters for all state and municipal housing assistance programs, including publicly funded programs administered by private agencies, notwithstanding state law or agency rules to the contrary, including but not limited to:
2.
Classification of housing cooperatives.
Housing assistance programs may develop specific policies that govern the treatment of program applicants who belong to or reside in housing cooperatives. For those programs that do not have specific policies regarding housing cooperatives, program applicants belonging to the housing cooperative must be treated as owners with a housing classification type of homeownership, except for the following:
3.
Cooperative affordable housing corporation participation in housing assistance programs.
If a cooperative affordable housing corporation is classified as the owner, the cooperative affordable housing corporation has the right to apply for multifamily owner benefit programs in accordance with the guidelines of the housing assistance programs.

Legislative History

PL 2023, c. 513, §7 (NEW).