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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-926" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Maryland Housing Rehabilitation Program">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Accessory housing” means a dwelling with complete and independent sleeping, cooking, and living facilities that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>within, attached to, or on the same parcel as a single-family, owner-occupied dwelling; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>subordinate to but under the same ownership as the single-family, owner-occupied dwelling.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Shared housing” means a single-family, owner-occupied dwelling adapted for common and shared living use by the owner-occupant and another family of limited income.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Sheltered housing” means a single-family, owner-occupied dwelling that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>accommodates the owner-occupant; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provides sleeping and living facilities, meals, and assistance with daily activities for a rental fee to not more than 15 elderly individuals or individuals with disabilities.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is an Accessory, Shared, and Sheltered Housing Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Department shall operate the Accessory, Shared, and Sheltered Housing Program and make loans for rehabilitation costs for accessory, shared, and sheltered housing from the Special Loan Programs Fund under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The terms for accessory, shared, and sheltered housing loans shall satisfy the requirements of § 4-916(b) of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>To qualify for an accessory housing loan, an applicant shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>own the property for which the loan is made and agree to live in the property after the rehabilitation is completed; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>agree to use the loan proceeds to implement a rehabilitation project to provide an accessory dwelling for a family of limited income for a fixed minimum term that the Department determines; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be a family of limited income when the loan is made and agree to use the loan proceeds to provide an accessory dwelling for a fixed minimum term that the Department determines.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>To qualify for a shared housing loan, an applicant shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>be a family of limited income;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>own the property for which the loan is made and agree to live in the property after the rehabilitation is completed; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>agree to use the loan proceeds to implement a rehabilitation project to provide shared housing or an accessory dwelling for a family of limited income.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>To qualify for a sheltered housing loan, an applicant shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>own the property for which the loan is made and agree to live in the property after the rehabilitation is completed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>agree to provide shelter, meals, and assistance with daily activities to not more than 15 elderly individuals or individuals with disabilities who qualify as families of limited income; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>demonstrate that the property will be certified by the appropriate governmental unit to provide sheltered care to elderly individuals or individuals with disabilities.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
