No low rent housing project shall be developed, constructed or acquired in any manner in the City of Middleburg Heights by any public body or authority, nor shall approval be granted for participation in the Federal Rent Supplement Program, until a majority of the qualified electors of the City of Middleburg Heights voting upon such issue, approve such project or such participation by voting in favor thereof at an election to be held for that purpose, or at the next general election. Such election shall be provided for by resolution of Council.
For the purpose of this section, the following terms shall be defined as follows:
(a) Federal Rent Supplement Program means any plan, program, law, rule, or regulation of the Federal Government under which the Federal Government pays to private individuals or non-public bodies owning a low rent housing project, all or any part of the rent of low income families or individuals eligible for public housing.
(b) Low rent housing project shall mean the following:
(1) Any development composed of one or more dwellings, apartments or other living accommodations for persons of low income, financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government or a State public body or authority or to which the Federal Government or a State public body or authority extends assistance by supplying all or part of the labor, by guaranteeing the payment of liens, or otherwise, or
(2) Any development composed of one or more dwellings, apartments or other living accommodations for persons of low income, developed, constructed or acquired by a private individual or a non-public body, and to which the Federal Government will make rent supplement payments on behalf of low income families or individuals eligible for public housing.
(c) Persons of low income and low income families shall mean persons or families who lack the amount of income which is necessary “to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and sanitary dwellings, without overcrowding”, as determined by the public body or authority developing, constructing or acquiring the housing project or by the administrator of the Federal Rent Supplement Program pursuant to Federal or State laws, rules or regulations. (Enacted 11-7-72)