HOUSING EDUCATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS.

SEC. 213. HOUSING EDUCATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS. (a) Community Land Trusts.—Section 233 of the Cranston- Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12773) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(2), by Inserting “, including community land trusts,” after “organizations”; (2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following: “(6) Community land trusts.—Organizational support, technical assistance, education, training, and continuing sup-port under this subsection may be made available to community land trusts (as such term is defined in subsection (0) and to community groups for the establishment of community land trusts.”; and 106 STAT. 3758 (3) by adding at the end the following: “(f) Definition of Community Land Trust.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘community land trust’ means a community housing development organization (except that the requirements under subparagraphs (C) and (D) of section 104(6) shall not apply for purposes of this subsection)— “(1) that is not sponsored by a for-profit organization; “(2) that is established to carry out the activities under paragraph (3); “(3) that— “(A) acquires parcels of land, held in perpetuity, primarily for conveyance under long-term ground leases; “(B) transfers ownership of any structural improvements located on such leased parcels to the lessees; and “(C) retains a preemptive option to purchase any such structural improvement at a price determined by formula that is designed to ensure that the improvement remains affordable to low- and moderate-income families in perpetuity; “(4) whose corporate membership that is open to any adult resident of a particular geographic area specified in the bylaws of the organization; and “(5) whose board of directors— “(A) includes a majority of members who are elected by the corporate membership; and “(B) is composed of equal numbers of (i) lessees pursuant to paragraph (3)(B), (ii) corporate members who are not lessees, and (iii) any other category of persons described in the bylaws of the organization.”. (b) Women in Homebuilding.—Section 233 of the Cranston- Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12773), as amended by subsection (a) of this section, is further amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in paragraph (1), by striking “and” at the end; (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and (C) by adding at the end the following: “(3) to achieve the purposes under paragraphs (1) and (2) by helping women who reside in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods rehabilitate and construct housing in the neighborhoods.”. (2) in subsection (b), by adding after paragraph (6) (as added by subsection (a)(2) of this section) the following: “(7) Facilitating women in homebuilding professions.—Technical assistance may be made available to businesses, unions, and organizations involved in construction and rehabilitation of housing in low- and moderate-income areas to assist women residing in the area to obtain jobs involving such activities, which may include facilitating access by such women to, and providing, apprenticeship and other training programs regarding non traditional skills, recruiting women to participate in such programs, providing continuing support for women at job sites, counseling and educating businesses regarding suitable work environments for women, providing information to such women regarding opportunities for establishing small housing construction and rehabilitation businesses, and providing materials and tools for training such women (in an 106 STAT. 3759amount not exceeding 10 percent of any assistance provided under this paragraph). The Secretary shall give priority under this paragraph to providing technical assistance for organizations rehabilitating single family or multifamily housing owned or controlled by the Secretary pursuant to title II of the National Housing Act and which have women members in occupations in which women constitute 25 percent or less of the total number of workers in the occupation (in this section referred to as ‘nontraditional occupations’).”; (3) in subsection (c)(1)— (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking “and” at the end; (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking “or” at the end and inserting “and”; and (C) by adding at the end the following: “(E) in the case of activities under subsection (b)(7), is a community-based organization (as such term is defined in section 4 of the Job Training Partnership Act) or public housing agency, which has demonstrated experience in preparing women for apprenticeship training in construction or administering programs for training women for construction or other nontraditional occupations (and such organizations may use assistance for activities under such subsection to employ women in housing construction and rehabilitation activities to the extent that the organization has the capacity to conduct such activities); or”; and (4) by adding at the end of subsection (e) the following: “The Secretary shall provide assistance under this section, to the extent applications are submitted and approved, to contractors in each of the geographic regions having a regional office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development”.