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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-1801" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="18" subtitle_name="Workforce Housing Grant Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Affordable” means that housing costs do not exceed 30% of a household’s income.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Area median income” means the median household income for the area adjusted for household size as published and annually updated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Development costs” means costs related to acquisition, site clearance and preparation, relocation, construction, renovation, financing, refinancing, engineering, or architectural plans.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Fund”  means the Workforce Housing Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Household of low or moderate income” means a household that a qualifying local government determines cannot afford a sales price or rent sufficient to induce private enterprise in the area of the qualifying local government to develop enough adequate and safe housing without the assistance of a program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Housing costs” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>rent for a rental housing unit; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>mortgage principal and interest, real property taxes, and insurance for a housing unit that is for sale.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Net proceeds of transfer” means all amounts paid to the original buyer or obligations of the original buyer assumed by a purchaser of a workforce housing unit minus:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>reasonable costs paid by the original buyer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the combined amount of Program funds and qualifying local government matching funds used to develop the workforce housing unit; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>other liens as permitted by regulation by the Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Priority funding area” has the meaning stated in § 5–7B–02 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Program” means the Workforce Housing Grant Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Qualifying local government” means a county or municipal corporation that qualifies for participation in the Program under § 4–1803 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Workforce housing” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>rental housing that is affordable for a household with an aggregate annual income between 50% and 100% of the area median income; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>homeownership housing that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>except as provided in item (ii) of this item, is affordable to a household with an aggregate annual income between 60% and 120% of the area median income; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>in target areas that are recognized by the Secretary for purposes of administering the Maryland Mortgage Program, is affordable to a household with an aggregate annual income between 60% and 150% of the area median income.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
