Each project or program assisted through the HOME Program must use 100 percent of its HOME funds to assist families with incomes below eighty (80) percent of the area median income. For rental housing more restrictive income eligibility provisions apply. Ninety (90) percent of the occupants of HOME-assisted rental units must have incomes that are sixty (60) percent of less of the area median. Twenty (20) percent of the units in each rental housing project containing five (5) or more units must be occupied by tenant families with incomes at or below fifty (50) percent of median income.
