Section 58-18C-3 - DefinitionsAs used in the New Mexico Housing Trust Fund Act:
A. "affordable housing" means residential housing primarily for persons or households of low or moderate income;B. "authority" means the New Mexico mortgage finance authority;C. "committee" means the New Mexico housing trust fund advisory committee;D. "fund" means the New Mexico housing trust fund;E. "persons of low or moderate income" means persons and households within the state who are determined by the authority to lack sufficient income to pay enough to cause private enterprise to build and preserve an adequate supply of decent, safe and sanitary residential housing in their locality or in an area reasonably accessible to their locality and whose incomes are below the income levels established by the authority to be in need of the assistance made available by the New Mexico Housing Trust Fund Act, taking into consideration, without limitation, such factors as defined under that act; andF. "residential housing" means any building, structure or portion thereof that is primarily occupied, or designed or intended primarily for occupancy, as a residence by one or more households and any real property that is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of such a building, structure or portion thereof. "Residential housing" includes congregate housing, manufactured homes and housing intended to provide or providing transitional or temporary housing for homeless persons.Amended by 2021, c. 24,s. 2, eff. 4/5/2021.