Sec. 8-251. Purchase, servicing and sale of mortgages or interests therein. Urban area mortgages. Loans for mobile manufactured homes.

(a) In order to provide additional construction and permanent financing for housing in this state, the authority is authorized to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase, service and sell mortgages and to make loans directly upon the security of any mortgage, and to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase and sell participation sale certificates representing interests in mortgages, provided the underlying mortgage loans shall have been made and shall be used solely to finance or refinance the construction, rehabilitation, purchase or leasing of housing in this state, and provided further the aggregate amount of permanent mortgages, mortgage-backed securities and participation sale certificates representing interests in mortgages purchased, and permanent loans made by the authority which are not directly or indirectly insured or guaranteed by any department, agency, instrumentality of the United States of America, or public corporation chartered by the Congress of the United States, including but not limited to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or which are not insured or guaranteed by any department, agency or instrumentality of the state, any insurance company licensed to do business in the state and authorized to underwrite mortgage insurance or by the authority shall not at any one time exceed two billion two hundred fifty million dollars.

(b) For the purpose of encouraging balanced community development in urban areas and increasing the supply and availability of mortgage financing for the residents of urban areas, the authority is authorized to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase, urban area mortgages or to make loans directly upon the security of urban area mortgages or to make loans for, or to purchase, urban area mortgages under terms and conditions requiring the proceeds thereof to be used for the making of additional urban area mortgages, subject to the provisions of section 8-250.

(c) For the purpose of assisting Connecticut residents to purchase mobile manufactured homes to be located in a manufactured housing community, the authority shall set aside not less than two million dollars to be used to provide loans directly to such residents. Such loans shall not require the purchase of private mortgage insurance, and shall accept an annual renewable lease for the lot on which such home is located.

(1969, P.A. 795, S. 11; 1972, P.A. 208, S. 6; P.A. 74-104, S. 9, 12; P.A. 75-465, S. 3, 7; P.A. 76-3; 76-118, S. 4, 6; P.A. 82-49, S. 1, 2; P.A. 84-328, S. 1, 2; P.A. 87-313, S. 1, 2; P.A. 06-47, S. 1; 06-194, S. 8; P.A. 08-176, S. 3; P.A. 13-65, S. 1.)

History: 1972 act included construction financing, deleted limitation of provisions to low and moderate-income families and allowed mortgages and loans not insured by federal or state agencies up to $100,000,000 limit, previously all loans and mortgages had to be insured by federal agency; P.A. 74-104 added provisions concerning interests in mortgages and excluding loans by public corporations chartered by Congress from $100,000,000 limit; P.A. 75-465 increased loan limit to $200,000,000 and included mortgage-backed securities in limit; P.A. 76-3 excluded loans by insurance companies licensed in state from $200,000,000; P.A. 76-118 added Subsec. (b) re urban area mortgages; P.A. 82-49 increased the limit to $300,000,000; P.A. 84-328 increased loan limit to $500,000,000; P.A. 87-313 increased loan limit to $750,000,000; P.A. 06-47 amended Subsec. (a) to increase loan limit $1,000,000,000; P.A. 06-194 added Subsec. (c) re loans for mobile manufactured homes, effective July 1, 2006; P.A. 08-176 amended Subsec. (a) to raise cap from $1,000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 13-65 amended Subsec. (a) by changing $1,500,000,000 to $2,250,000,000 re limit on aggregate amount of mortgages not insured or guaranteed, effective July 1, 2013.