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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-1709" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="17" subtitle_name="Self-Help Homeownership Technical Assistance Program">
  <text>The Department may award a technical assistance grant to a political subdivision, public entity, or nonprofit organization to provide owner–builders and self–help rehabilitators with information and technical assistance about any topic that the Department finds will further the purpose of the Program, including:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>cost savings by owner–builders in constructing a principal residence and by self–help rehabilitators in rehabilitating, renovating, or improving a principal residence;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>construction materials and methods;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>local material sources;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>local technical resources;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>financing requirements and opportunities;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>site acquisition;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>insurance and legal requirements;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>building and housing codes and standards; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>other available housing alternatives.</text>
  </level>
</section>
