Cite as: 33 CNCA § 32

A. Housing Programs

a. Housing Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation services for privately owned homes for low-income Cherokee Nation citizens, including emergency rehabilitation services.

b. New Construction Home Ownership Program: A program to provide a path to affordable home ownership for Cherokee Nation citizens on a lease-to-own basis.

c. Mortgage Assistance Program: A program to support citizens of the Cherokee Nation to obtain a residential home mortgage through credit and home ownership counseling, down payment assistance and other educational and financial incentives relating to home ownership.

d. Housing Rental Units: Single or multi-family rental units for low-income citizens of the Cherokee Nation.

e. Crisis/Transitional Housing: Housing facilities designed to meet short-term needs of unhoused individuals or victims of domestic violence.

f. Cherokee Language Speaker Villages: Housing units that support Cherokee language revitalization within the meaning and as previously authorized by the Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act of Permanent Reauthorization of 2024, including all units constructed prior to the enactment of this Act for comparable purposes, the construction, maintenance or rehabilitation of which is performed in coordination with the Cherokee Nation Language Department.

g. Cherokee Nation Speaker Services: Programs of housing support for fluent Cherokee language speakers within the meaning of the Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act of Permanent Reauthorization of 2024.

h. Residential Construction Industry Development Fund: Programs to develop or support the residential construction workforce or residential construction entrepreneurs.

i. Housing Partners Grants: Grants to third-party government or non-profit entities to meet any of the objectives of the Housing Programs described in Section 5 § 2 A (a)-(h).

j. Land acquisition supportive of Section 5 § 2 A.

k. Housing Maintenance Fund: Repair, maintenance, replacement or remodel of housing units constructed under Section 5 §2 A (a)-(f) and housing units constructed under comparable housing programs prior to the enactment of this Act, as determined by the Principal Chief and memorialized in the HJSCA Three-Year Housing Plan prescribe by this Act.

B. Community and Cultural Outreach (CCO) Programs

a. Sustainable Communities: A program, administered through direct expenditure for the benefit of, or grants in benefit to, non-profit organizations deemed to be "CCO participating organizations" as determined by the policies and procedures of CCO, which supports cultural, social or environmental sustainability through:

i. Construction of community buildings.

ii. Remodel or expansion of existing community buildings.

iii. Equipment for community buildings.

iv. Supportive infrastructure for community buildings.

v. Improvements to properties on which community buildings are situated.

vi. Land acquisition supportive of Section 5 § 2 B (a) (i)-(v).

Historical Data

LA 20–19, eff. October 17, 2019. Amended LA 10-22, eff. March 31, 2022. Amended LA 35-24, eff. September 26, 2024. Amended LA 04-25, eff. February 10, 2025.