(a) As used in this section, “authority” means the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority created under section 8-244.
(b) The authority is authorized to continue to develop and implement a program for home mortgage refinancing for homeowners with fixed or adjustable rate mortgages as an additional purpose pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (32) of section 8-250. Such program shall (1) include making mortgage loans to borrowers who (A) are deemed eligible by the authority, and (B) purchase foreclosed or abandoned properties or properties conveyed by deed in lieu of foreclosure or short sale; or (2) be undertaken by the authority consistent with and subject to its contractual obligations to its bondholders in an initial amount of forty million dollars under terms and conditions determined by the authority.
(P.A. 08-176, S. 1; P.A. 09-209, S. 31; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-2, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 08-176 effective June 12, 2008; P.A. 09-209 amended Subsec. (b) by changing “adjustable rate mortgages” to “fixed or adjustable rate mortgages”, effective July 9, 2009; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-2 amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdiv. (1) specifying that program shall include making mortgage loans to borrowers who are deemed eligible by authority and purchase certain qualified properties and by inserting Subdiv. (2) designator, effective July 1, 2010.