                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

GRANTS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP; WORKFORCE HOUSING (§ 15.2-958.2)

A. In order to ensure its competitiveness as an employer, a locality may, by
ordinance, provide for the use of funds, other than state funds, to provide
homeownership grants to employees of the locality, employees of the school board
and employees of constitutional officers, to purchase their primary residences
in the locality. The ordinance shall require that individual grants not exceed
$25,000 per employee, nor lifetime cumulative grants exceed $25,000 per
employee. Any such grants issued shall be subject to the Virginia Housing and
Development Authority regional sales price and household income limitations. The
ordinance may establish such other terms and conditions to ensure the integrity
of the homeownership grant program.

B. In addition to the homeownership grants authorized in subsection A, a
locality may by ordinance, and in cooperation with the local school division,
offer residential housing assistance grants in amounts not to exceed those
permitted in subsection A and, with the local school division, enter into
public-private partnerships and other arrangements to provide affordable
workforce housing alternatives to school division personnel.

HISTORY: 2004, c. 541; 2007, cc. 578, 674; 2009, c. 198.