315.984 - Powers of Authority concerning housing projects and low-rent housing; power of nonprofit organization concerning housing projects. - Nevada Statutes

315.984  Powers of Authority concerning housing projects and low-rent housing; power of nonprofit organization concerning housing projects.          1.  The Authority or a nonprofit corporation created pursuant to paragraph (g) of subsection 2 of NRS 315.983 may, within its area of operation, prepare, carry out and operate housing projects and provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, extension, alteration or repair of any such project or any part thereof.

      2.  The Authority may, within its area of operation, administer programs to subsidize that portion of a tenant’s rental payments which represents the difference between the payment required in the lease and the amount paid under any program of the Federal Government.

      3.  The Authority may, within its area of operation, determine where there is a need for additional low-rent housing for persons of low and moderate income and where there is unsafe, insanitary or overcrowded housing.

      4.  The Authority may, within its area of operation, make studies and recommendations relating to the problems of relieving the shortage of low-rent housing and of eliminating unsafe, insanitary or overcrowded housing.

      5.  The Authority may, within its area of operation, cooperate with the Federal Government, state agencies, local housing authorities, counties, cities, towns and other political subdivisions of the State in action taken in connection with such problems.

      (Added to NRS by 1973, 618; A 1987, 524; 1995, 813; 1997, 451; 2005, 223)