Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Labor and Economic Opportunity › Michigan State Housing Development Authority - General Rules › Part 9 - MICHIGAN HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND; MICHIGAN HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM › Section R. 125.192 - Program funds eligible uses

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 192.
(1)
				Michigan housing and community development program funds may be used for the
				following activities:
(a) Acquisition
				activities. Acquisition in whole or in part by the recipient, by purchase,
				long-term lease, donation, or otherwise, of real property, including air
				rights, water rights, rights-of-way, easements, and other interests therein,
				for any purpose authorized by the program.
(b) Rehabilitation, clearance, and
				remediation activities. Rehabilitation activities include clearance,
				demolition, and removal of buildings and improvements, movement of structures
				to other sites, and remediation of known or suspected environmental
				contamination for a current or proposed housing development or project located
				in a downtown area or adjacent neighborhood. Demolition of HUD-assisted or
				HUD-owned housing units may be undertaken only with the prior approval of
				HUD.
(c) New construction of
				housing activities or projects located in a downtown area or adjacent
				neighborhood. Construction of a housing development or projects located in a
				downtown area or adjacent neighborhood, including housing assisted under
				federal or state law, through the incurrence of development costs and
				predevelopment costs.
(d)
				Activities incurring development costs and predevelopment costs.
(e) Preservation of existing housing or
				activities related to the preservation of existing housing.
(f) Activities related to community
				development projects, infrastructure improvements, economic development
				projects, blight elimination, and community facilities. Activities under this
				category include acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or
				installation of community facilities, and infrastructure improvements or other
				incurrence of development costs or predevelopment costs carried out by the
				recipient. In undertaking such activities, design features and improvements
				that promote energy efficiency may be included. Such activities may also
				include the execution of architectural design features and similar treatments
				intended to enhance the aesthetic quality of facilities and improvements
				receiving assistance. Such community facilities include, but are not limited
				to, shelters for the homeless; shelters for victims of spousal and dating
				violence; halfway houses for children temporarily separated from their parents
				or guardians, drug offenders or parolees; group homes for persons with
				disabilities; and temporary housing for disaster victims.
(g) Activities incurring insurance costs
				related to any purpose authorized by the Michigan housing and community
				development program.
(h) Activities
				involving operating, replacement, and other reserves related to any purpose
				authorized by the Michigan housing and community development program.
(i) Activities providing down payment and
				other direct homeownership assistance to low, very low, or extremely low-income
				households.
(j) Activities
				providing security deposit assistance to low, very low, or extremely low-income
				households.
(k) Activities
				providing foreclosure prevention or foreclosure assistance to low, very low, or
				extremely low-income households.
(l) Activities related to individual
				development accounts established under the individual or family development
				account program act, 2006 PA 513, MCL
				206.901 to
				206.911.
(m) Activities related to ending
				homelessness.
(n) The provision of
				assistance either through the recipient directly or through public and private
				organizations, agencies, and other subrecipients, including nonprofit and
				for-profit subrecipients, to facilitate economic development projects or
				activities that support housing development that does the following:
(i) Provides financial support for the
				establishment, stabilization, and expansion of business enterprises.
(ii) Provides technical assistance, advice,
				and business support services to owners of business enterprises and persons
				developing business enterprises.
(iii) Provides general support, including,
				but not limited to, peer support programs, counseling, childcare,
				transportation, and other similar services, to owners of business enterprises
				and persons developing business enterprises.
(iv) Assistance under this subrule may also
				include training, technical assistance, or other support services to increase
				the capacity of the recipient or subrecipient to carry out the activities under
				this subrule.
(o)
				Assistance activities provided to public or nonprofit entities, including
				municipalities and land bank fast track authorities organized under the land
				bank fast track act, 2003 PA 258, MCL
				124.751 to
				124.774, to increase the capacity
				of such entities to carry out program eligible housing development,
				neighborhood revitalization, or economic development activities.
(p) Predatory lending prevention or
				relief.
(q) Any other housing and
				community development fund or program activities authorized under the
				authority's act.