housing project receives Low-Income Housing Credits (26 U.S.C. 42), the ownership or membership does not constitute homeownership.
Household means one or more persons occupying a housing unit.
Housing includes manufactured housing and manufactured housing lots, permanent housing for disabled homeless persons, transitional housing, single-room occupancy housing, and group homes. Housing also includes elder cottage housing opportunity (ECHO) units that are small, free- standing, barrier-free, energy-efficient, removable, and designed to be installed adjacent to existing single family housing units. Housing does not include emergency shelters (including shelters for disaster victims) or facilities such as nursing homes, convalescent homes, hospitals, residential treatment facilities, correctional facilities, halfway houses, housing for students, or dormitories (including farmworker dormitories).
Housing counseling has the meaning given the term in 24 CFR 5.100.
Insular areas means Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.
Jurisdiction means a State or unit of general local government.
Live-in aide has the same meaning given that term in 24 CFR 5.403.
Low-income families means families whose annual incomes do not exceed 80 percent of the median income for the area, as determined by HUD, with adjustments for smaller and larger families, except that HUD may establish income ceilings higher or lower than 80 percent of the median for the area on the basis of HUD findings that such variations are necessary because of prevailing levels of construction costs or fair market rents, or unusually high or low family incomes. An individual does not qualify as a low-income family if the individual is a student who is not eligible to