§ 25B-2. Definitions.  


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  • (a) Affordable housing: Any dwelling unit or other form of housing constructed for sale or rent at a price equal to or less than that provided in Chapter 25A, and any assisted elderly housing.
    (b) Agency: The Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the Housing Opportunities Commission, or any other governmental entity which receives any part of its funding or other resources from or through the County government.
    (c) Assisted-family housing: Those units of affordable housing which consist of privately or governmentally owned rental units for which the owners receive subsidies from the federal, state or local government in the form of rent supplements or mortgage interest subsidies, except
    (1) units designated for occupancy by persons 62 years old or older; and
    (2) units which benefit from tax-exempt financing but receive no other government subsidy.
    (d) Person: Any individual, partnership, corporation, joint stock association, or any city or state or any subdivision thereof; and any trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof.
    (e) Scattered site unit: A single-family detached or attached dwelling acquired by an agency for assisted-family rental housing, but which is not in a subdivision or development that is primarily assisted-family housing. (1982 L.M.C., ch. 45, § 1; 1993 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; 1996 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 1.)