scope:

Purpose.

This part establishes the Emergency Homeowners' Loan Program, a standby program authorized by the Emergency Homeowners Relief Act of 1975, as amended, to prevent widespread mortgage mortgage foreclosures and distress sales of homes resulting from a homeowner's substantial reduction in income due to temporary involuntary loss of employment or underemployment resulting from adverse economic conditions or medical condition. Under this program, HUD is authorized to provide relief in the forms of emergency mortgage relief loans, advances of credit, or emergency mortgage relief payments to struggling unemployed or underemployed homeowners to help them avoid foreclosure, provided the homeowner meets certain specific conditions. HUD may provide such relief through approved institutions, including lending institutions, or intermediaries designated by HUD. HUD is also authorized to allow assistance under this program to be administered by a State that has an existing program that is determined by HUD to provide substantially similar assistance to homeowners.