Section 8-296 - Financial assistance. Abatement of real property taxes(a) An urban rehabilitation agency may provide financial assistance to urban rehabilitators in the form of grants or loans for the purchase and rehabilitation of urban rehabilitation program property. All such loans, if made by the urban rehabilitation agency, shall be secured by a mortgage naming the municipality as the mortgagee, provided if any such loans are made from funds provided by the state or federal government or any other public or private entity, the state or federal government or the public or private agency may be the mortgagee, and provided further that a municipality may assign any such mortgage to another entity.(b) An urban rehabilitation agency may utilize federal, state or other public or private financial assistance, provided that any such assistance requiring local financial participation shall be first approved by the legislative body of the municipality.(c) An urban rehabilitation agency may recommend to the legislative body the abatement in whole or in part of real property taxes due on urban rehabilitation program property conveyed to an urban rehabilitator pursuant to sections 8-294 and 8-295, or the deferral of such taxes for a period not to exceed ten years. Such legislative body may, by resolution, authorize such abatement. All urban rehabilitation program property conveyed to an urban rehabilitator may be designated by the legislative body of a municipality as property eligible for deferral of increased assessment under the provisions of sections 12-65c to 12-65f, inclusive.