Section 24-32-717 - Housing investment trust fund - loans - definitions(1)(a) The division shall establish a housing investment trust fund, referred to in this section as the "trust fund". The division shall pay into the trust fund any moneys made available by the general assembly, all moneys collected by the division for purposes of this section from federal grants and from other contributions, gifts, grants, and donations received from any other organization, entity, or individual, public or private, and from any fees or interest earned on such moneys, which moneys the division is hereby authorized and directed to solicit, accept, expend, and disburse for the purpose of making loans or loan guarantees and for program administration as provided in this section. Any moneys in the trust fund at the end of any fiscal year do not revert to the general fund. The moneys in the trust fund are hereby continuously appropriated to the division for the purposes specified in this section. For any given state fiscal year, no more than three percent of the moneys appropriated from the trust fund may be expended for the administrative costs of the division in administering the trust fund.(b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2014.)(2) Subject to the requirements of this section, upon the approval of the board, the division may make a loan from moneys in the trust fund for development or redevelopment costs incurred prior to the completion of low- or moderate-income housing or for the rehabilitation of such housing. The interest rate on such loan shall be determined by the board and set forth in the loan agreement signed by the applicant. In conjunction with the making of such loan, the division shall require the borrower to furnish collateral security in such amounts and in such form as the division shall determine to be necessary to assure the payment of such loan and the interest thereon as the same become due. The loan shall be subject to the terms and conditions imposed by the division and shall be repaid within the time and in the manner specified by the division in the loan agreement. In making loans of moneys from the trust fund, the division shall give priority to owners of property that was either destroyed or incurred substantial damage as a result of one or more state or federally declared natural disasters.(3) As principal and interest payments are received by the division from the borrower, such moneys shall be deposited in the trust fund.(3.5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, on or after May 29, 2014:(a) The division may charge the borrower an origination fee for loans made from the trust fund. The fee must be used for direct and indirect costs associated with the administration of the trust fund.(b) The division shall not guarantee any loan made to a for-profit organization or entity unless the loan is secured on a recourse basis; and(c) The total amount of loan guarantees that may be made by the division against the trust fund shall not exceed either two million dollars for any one project or up to five million dollars for all such projects at any one time.(3.7) If applications are required for loans pursuant to this section, the application process must be in accordance with the process set forth in section 24-32-705.7.(4) For the purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Family" means two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption who live or expect to live together as a single household in the same home, a single person who is either at least sixty-two years of age or has a disability, or a single person whom the board may by regulation determine to be eligible for assistance under this part 7.(b) "Low- or moderate-income family" means a family whose income is insufficient to secure decent, safe, and sanitary housing provided by private industry without public assistance and whose income is below the respective income limits established by the board by regulation, taking into consideration such factors as the following: (I) The amount of the total income of such family available for housing needs;(II) The size of the family;(III) The cost and condition of housing facilities available;(IV) The ability of such family to compete successfully in the private housing market and to pay the amounts at which private enterprise is providing decent, safe, and sanitary housing; and(V) Standards established by various programs of the federal government for determining eligibility based on the income of such family.(c) "Low- or moderate-income housing" means a residential structure or structures occupied by one or more low- or moderate-income families.Amended by 2024 Ch. 295,§ 5, eff. 8/7/2024, app. to applications submitted for affordable housing programs administered by the division of housing on or after 9/1/2024, or, if a referendum petition is filed, on or after the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.Amended by 2014 Ch. 277, § 1, eff. 5/29/2014.L. 82: Entire section added, p. 368, § 1, effective April 27. L. 85: (5) amended, p. 808, § 1, effective May 16. L. 88: (5) amended, p. 918, § 1, effective April 14. L. 92: (1), (2), (3), and (5) amended, p. 1070, § 1, effective July 1. L. 93: (4)(a) amended, p. 1654, § 58, effective July 1. L. 2006: (5) repealed, p. 143, § 14, effective August 7. L. 2009: (1) amended, (SB 09 -279), ch. 367, p. 1930, § 18, effective June 1. L. 2014: (1), (2), and (3) amended and (3.5) added, (HB 14-1017), ch. 277, p. 1122, § 1, effective May 29.Section 16(2)(a) of chapter 295 (HB 24-1308), Session Laws of Colorado 2024, provides that the act adding subsection (3.7) applies to applications submitted for affordable housing programs administered by the division of housing on or after September 1, 2024, or, if a referendum petition is filed against the act or an item, section, or part of the act, then it applies on or after the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.
2024 Ch. 295, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3). For the legislative declaration in HB 24-1308, see section 1 of chapter 295, Session Laws of Colorado 2024.