55:14K-98 Entry into contracts, loans.
5. a. (1) The agency may enter into contracts or loans, or both, with no more than two qualified community development financial institutions to negotiate, bid for, and purchase eligible properties and mortgage assets for the purpose of facilitating the program. In selecting contractors from among qualified community development financial institutions, the agency shall accord a strong preference to qualified community development financial institutions that have substantial experience in lending in the State and substantial knowledge of the State's real estate markets. The agency may enter into contracts or loans, or both, with a partnership or consortia of organizations, as long as a qualified community development financial institution is the lead entity, or a partnership or consortia of multiple qualified community development financial institutions.
(2) Should the agency contract with a community development financial institution for the purposes of P.L.2021, c.34 (C.55:14K-94 et al.), the contract shall specify the amounts, schedules, and types of funding to be provided by the agency to the qualified community development financial institution, the repayment schedule for the portion of that funding to be repaid, and targeted goals for homeowner interventions. The agency may condition funding and goals upon the availability of funds to the program. The contract shall specify reasonable administrative costs sufficient to enable the qualified community development financial institution to exercise its obligations pursuant to P.L.2021, c.34 (C.55:14K-94 et al.). The contract shall set forth criteria for instances when the purchase, sale, lease, and conveyance of properties furthers the purposes of P.L.2021, c.34 (C.55:14K-94 et al.).
b. All purchases, sales, leases, and conveyances of property by qualified community development financial institutions exercised pursuant to this section shall be deemed to lessen the burdens of government in furthering the purposes of P.L.2021, c.34 (C.55:14K-94 et al.).
L.2021, c.34, s.5.