24 CFR § 1000.147 - When does housing qualify as affordable housing under NAHASDA?
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t24/s1000.147"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "24 CFR § 1000.147 - When does housing qualify as affordable housing under NAHASDA?"
title_number: 24
title_name: "Housing and Urban Development"
section_number: "1000.147"
section_name: "When does housing qualify as affordable housing under NAHASDA?"
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT"
part_number: "1000"
part_name: "NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING ACTIVITIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "25 U.S.C. 4101 42 U.S.C. 3535(d)."
regulatory_source: "63 FR 12349, Mar. 12, 1998, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1000"
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# 1000.147 When does housing qualify as affordable housing under NAHASDA?
(a) Housing qualifies as affordable housing, provided that the family occupying the unit is low-income at the following times:
(1) In the case of rental housing, at the time of the family's initial occupancy of such unit;
(2) In the case of a contract to purchase existing housing, at the time of purchase;
(3) In the case of a lease-purchase agreement for existing housing or for housing to be constructed, at the time the agreement is signed; and
(4) In the case of a contract to purchase housing to be constructed, at the time the contract is signed.
(b) Families that are not low-income as described in this section may be eligible under § 1000.104 or § 1000.110.
[63 FR 12349, Mar. 12, 1998. Redesignated at 77 FR 71526, Dec. 3, 2012]