# COMAR Title 05 — Department of Housing and Community Development

## Subtitle 04 — Special Loan Programs

### Chapter 09 — Group Home Financing Program

#### Regulation .06 Eligible Uses.

*COMAR 05.04.09.06*

The proceeds of a mortgage loan may be used to finance:

A. Purchase of a newly constructed building to provide a group home;

B. Permanent long-term mortgage financing, including refinancing;

C. Purchase of an existing building to provide a group home;

D. Modifications to a building purchased with a loan if the modification improves, repairs, renovates, or rehabilitates the building to:

  (1) Make it suitable as a group home; or

  (2) Eliminate housing, building, fire, safety, health, or other code violations;

E. Closing costs associated with site acquisition, purchase, or refinance of a group home;

F. Engineering, legal, title, survey, or architectural fees associated with the rehabilitation, purchase, or modification of a group home;

G. Costs associated with site preparation and evaluation including soil borings, environmental review reports, and testing for environmental hazards;

H. A refinance of an existing group home;

I. Construction costs for a new building to be used as a group home; or

J. Other development costs considered reasonable by the Department.