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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="6-1203" title_number="6" title_name="Division of Neighborhood Revitalization" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Just Community Designation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Governor, on the recommendation of the Secretary, may designate an area as a Just Community if the Secretary demonstrates that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>past and current trends in homeownership, property values, commercial and residential vacancy, and business or housing investment show a need for reinvestment in the area; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the area has been negatively impacted by a history of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>forms of legal racial segregation including redlining, exclusionary zoning, or racially restrictive covenants;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the demolition of residential neighborhoods through the use of eminent domain or State or federal funding;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a State imprisonment rate higher than 750 per 100,000 persons; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>unequal exposure to environmental and health hazards, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>proximity to a federal Superfund site;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>estimated exposure to lead–based paint; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>rates of asthma among adults that are higher than the 90th percentile for the State.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To maintain a Just Community designation, every 5 years the Secretary shall make designation recommendations for approval by the Governor in accordance with subsection (a) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>At the time Just Communities are designated or renewed, the Governor shall identify State programs under which a Just Community shall receive priority for State funding.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The prioritization of State funding for Just Communities under subsection (c) of this section shall not supersede other program requirements specified in State law.</text>
  </level>
</section>
