Community Housing Definition
The definition of community housing is included in
section 2 of the Community Preservation Act (CPA) legislation.
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) income guidelines are used to determine who is eligible to live in the affordable housing units developed by communities with their CPA funds. Housing developed with CPA funds may be offered to those persons and families whose annual income is less than 100 percent of the area-wide median income, as determined by HUD.
Please note, though, that communities may choose to limit certain housing units created with CPA funds to those persons and families earning less than 80 percent of the area wide median income annually, as determined by HUD. This allows communities to include these units on their Subsidized Housing Inventory (SHI) with the state.
Funds
CPA funds may be spent on the acquisition, creation, preservation and support of community housing, and for the rehabilitation or restoration of community housing that has been acquired or created using CPA funds. The CPA requires that whenever possible, preference be given to the adaptive reuse of existing buildings or construction of new buildings on previously developed sites.
This text was taken directly from the
Community Preservation Coalition website.
Weston's CPA-Funded Community Housing Projects
View Weston's
CPA-funded community housing projects.