§ 921 — Definitions

§ 921. Definitions. As used in this article:\n 1. "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of the state division of\nhousing and community renewal.\n 2. "Division" shall mean the division of housing and community\nrenewal.\n 3. "Eligible applicant" shall mean a not-for-profit corporation or\ncharitable organization, organized for a period of one or more years,\nwhich is either incorporated under the not-for-profit corporation law\n(or such law together with any other applicable law) or, if\nunincorporated, is not organized for the private profit or benefit of\nits members and has been engaged primarily in community preservation\nactivities.\n 4. "Municipality" shall mean any unit of local government within the\nstate with a population of more than twenty thousand persons.\n 5. "Neighborhood" shall mean an area within the municipality\nidentified by recognized or established boundaries consistent with a\ndetermination of neighborhood eligibility under article sixteen of this\nchapter.\n 6. "Urban initiatives projects" or "projects" shall mean a specific\nwork or series of works for the revitalization and improvement of a\nneighborhood through creation, preservation or improvement of\nresidential housing units; preservation or improvement of local\ncommercial facilities and public facilities or other aspects of the area\nenvironment which include as part of its project the creation,\npreservation or improvement of residential housing units.\n 7. "Persons of low income" shall mean those persons and families whose\nincomes do not exceed eighty percent of the median income for the\nmetropolitan statistical area in which a project is located.\n 8. "Corporation" shall mean the housing trust fund corporation\nestablished in section forty-five-a of this chapter.\n 9. "Division urban initiatives program" shall mean the program\nheretofore administered by the division pursuant to appropriations and\nreappropriations for the purposes of urban initiatives programs.\n