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[CITE: 42USC12896]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 130--NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING
 
 SUBCHAPTER IV--HOPE FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP OF MULTIFAMILY AND SINGLE FAMILY 
                                  HOMES
 
          Part B--HOPE for Homeownership of Single Family Homes
 
Sec. 12896. Definitions

    For purposes of this part:
        (1) The term ``applicant'' means a private nonprofit 
    organization, cooperative association, or a public agency (including 
    an agency or instrumentality thereof) in cooperation with a private 
    nonprofit organization.
        (2) The term ``displaced homemaker'' has the same meaning as in 
    section 12704 of this title.
        (3) The term ``eligible family'' means a family or individual 
    who--
            (A) has an income that does not exceed 80 percent of the 
        median income for the area, as determined by the Secretary with 
        adjustments for smaller and larger families; and
            (B) is a first-time homebuyer.

        (4) The term ``eligible property'' means a single family 
    property, containing no more than four units, that is owned or held 
    by the Secretary, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Secretary 
    of Agriculture, the Resolution Trust Corporation, the Federal 
    Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Secretary of Defense, the 
    Secretary of Transportation, the General Services Administration, 
    any other Federal agency, a State or local government (including any 
    in rem property), or a public housing agency or an Indian housing 
    authority (excluding public or Indian housing under the United 
    States Housing Act of 1937 [42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.] and including 
    properties held by institutions within the jurisdiction of the 
    Resolution Trust Corporation).
        (5) The term ``first-time homebuyer'' has the same meaning as in 
    section 12704 of this title.
        (6) The term ``homeownership program'' means a program for 
    homeownership under this part.
        (7) The term ``Indian housing authority'' has the meaning given 
    such term in section 3(b)(11) \1\ of the United States Housing Act 
    of 1937.
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        (8) The term ``low-income family'' has the meaning given such 
    term in section 3(b)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 [42 
    U.S.C. 1437a(b)(2)].
        (9) The term ``public housing agency'' has the meaning given 
    such term in section 3(b)(6) of the United States Housing Act of 
    1937 [42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(6)].
        (10) The term ``recipient'' means an applicant approved to 
    receive a grant under this part or such other entity specified in 
    the approved application that will assume the obligations of the 
    recipient under this part.
        (11) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Housing and 
    Urban Development.
        (12) The term ``single parent'' means an individual who--
            (A) is unmarried or legally separated from a spouse; and
            (B)(i) has 1 or more minor children for whom the individual 
        has custody or joint custody; or
            (ii) is pregnant.

(Pub. L. 101-625, title IV, Sec. 446, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4179; 
Pub. L. 102-550, title I, Sec. 181(g)(2), (h), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 
3736.)

                       References in Text

    The United States Housing Act of 1937, referred to in par. (4), is 
act Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 896, as revised generally by Pub. L. 93-383, 
title II, Sec. 201(a), Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 653, and amended, which 
is classified generally to chapter 8 (Sec. 1437 et seq.) of this title. 
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title 
note set out under section 1437 of this title and Tables.
    Section 3(b)(11) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, referred 
to in par. (7), was classified to section 1437a(b)(11) of this title 
prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104-330, title V, Sec. 501(b)(1)(D), Oct. 26, 
1996, 110 Stat. 4041, and a new section 1437a(b)(11), defining ``public 
housing agency plan'', was enacted by Pub. L. 105-276, title V, 
Sec. 506(4), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2524.


                               Amendments

    1992--Par. (4). Pub. L. 102-550 inserted ``the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of 
Transportation, the General Services Administration, any other Federal 
agency,'' after ``Corporation,'' and substituted ``(excluding public or 
Indian housing under the United States Housing Act of 1937 and 
including'' for ``(including scattered site single family properties, 
and''.
