California Health and Safety Code 51063 – Relocation payments shall be made to persons and families of low or …
Relocation payments shall be made to persons and families of low or moderate income who are residents displaced because of temporary or permanent displacement for rehabilitation work assisted under this part, or rent increases resulting from rehabilitation, pursuant to the Uniform Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C., Sec. 4601) or Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 7260) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, middle-income families who decide against occupying the rehabilitated housing shall not continue to receive relocation payments.
The agency shall also insure that the relocation payments and the relocation advisory assistance specified therein shall be provided. Pursuant to the provisions of this section, the agency shall insure relocation payments are provided to persons and families involuntarily displaced in making a site or structure available for rehabilitation or construction financed under this part, or in the alternative may require the housing sponsor receiving a loan commitment pursuant to this part to make such payments and provide such assistance, whether such displacement has occurred in anticipation of the loan commitment or will occur subsequent thereto.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 51063
- middle-income families: means persons and families of low or moderate income whose income exceeds the income limit for lower income households. See California Health and Safety Code 50093
- Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
- Persons and families of low or moderate income: includes very low income households, as defined in Section 50105, extremely low income households, as defined in Section 50106, and lower income households as defined in Section 50079. See California Health and Safety Code 50093
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
For purposes of this section, displacement includes relocation occurring because of a qualified person or family’s inability to pay increased rentals resulting from rehabilitation, or involuntary temporary or permanent displacement of a qualified person or family to allow rehabilitation work to be done.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 96.)