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. 28, July 12, 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.