(a) The department may make community residential facility loans to organizations for (1) construction or purchase and renovation of community-based residential facilities in principal amounts up to one hundred per cent of the total property development cost of the project or (2) the refinancing of an indebtedness created in December, 1983, which indebtedness is secured by a mortgage on such residential facility in principal amounts up to one hundred per cent of the total indebtedness provided in no case may the total amount of the loan exceed three hundred fifty thousand dollars.

(b) The department may make community residential facility loans to organizations for rehabilitation of community-based residential facilities in principal amounts up to one hundred per cent of the total property development cost of the project provided in no case may the total amount of the loan exceed sixty thousand dollars.

(c) The portion, if any, of the total property development cost which is to be paid by the organization may come from one or both of the following sources: (1) Actual cash under the control of the organization; or (2) a loan secured by a mortgage on the property, which mortgage may include both the land and the building.

(d) The department may make community residential facility loans to organizations which own or have capital leases for existing community-based residential facilities for rehabilitation and capital repairs and improvements in amounts not less than three thousand dollars and not greater than forty thousand dollars. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 17a-225, the department may make loans pursuant to this subsection upon execution of a promissory note equal to the amount of the loan which shall provide for repayment of the loan principal and interest. The term of such loans shall be consistent with the reimbursement through the rates established by the Department of Social Services in accordance with § 17b-224.