- A. The Program is designed to provide short-term financing for eligible homeowners who, because of an involuntary loss of income due to unemployment or other extraordinary hardship, are unable to make current mortgage payments on their homes and are likely to have to forfeit the title to their home.
B. The Program is one of four loan programs operated under the Maryland Home Financing Program as authorized by the Act. Other loan programs operating under the Maryland Home Financing Program include programs for making:
- (1) Preferred interest adjustable rate loans to certain households of limited income, for the purchase, purchase and rehabilitation, or refinancing of a primary residence as described in COMAR 05.03.01;
- (2) Short-term construction loans to developers for the construction of, or rehabilitation of, residential units affordable to certain households of limited income; and
- (3) Reverse equity mortgage loans to elderly households of limited income for housing-related expenses and personal expenses which enable the owner to continue to occupy the owner's home, as described in COMAR 05.03.05.
Authority: Housing and Community Development Article, §4-806(a)(4), Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date: October 8, 1984 (11:20 Md. R. 1741)
Chapter recodified from COMAR 05.01.16 to COMAR 05.03.03
Chapter (Homeowners' Emergency Assistance Program) repealed effective
April 30, 1990 (17:8 Md. R. 975)
Regulations .01—.15 (Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program) adopted
effective April 30, 1990 (17:8 Md. R. 975)
Regulation .05A amended effective January 2, 1993 (19:26 Md. R. 2283)