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104 STAT. 4422 PUBLIC LAW 101-625—NOV. 28, 1990 primarily without remuneration to care for the home and family; and (C) is unemployed or underemployed and is experiencing difficulty in obtaining or upgrading employment. (2) FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER. — The term "first-time homebuyer" means an individual who has never, or has not during a specified period of time, had any present ownership interest in a principal residence. (3) SINGLE PARENT. —The term "single parent" means an individual who— (A) is unmarried or legally separated from a spouse; and (B)(i) has 1 or more minor children for whom the individual has custody or joint custody; or (ii) is pregnant, (c) APPLICABILITY.— T his section shall apply to any Federal program to assist first-time homebuyers, unless the program is exempted from this section by a statute that amends this subsection or explicitly refers to this subsection. 42 USC 12714. SEC. 957. MAXIMUM ANNUAL LIMITATION ON RENT INCREASES RESULT- ING FROM EMPLOYMENT. (a) IN GENERAL. —Notwithstanding any other law and subject to approval in appropriations Acts, the rent charged for any dwelling unit assisted under any housing assistance program administered by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to a family whose monthly adjusted income increases as a result of the employ- ment of a member of the family who wsis previously unemployed, may not be increased as a result of the increased monthly adjusted income due to such employment by more than 10 percent in each 12-month period during the 36-month period beginning upon such employment. (b) DEFINITION OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE. —For purposes of this section, the term "housing assistance program" means any program of assistance for housing— (1) for which assistance is provided by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the form of a grant, contract, loan, loan guarantee, cooperative agreement, interest subsidy, insurance, or direct appropriation; and (2) under which rent payments, with respect to all or some of the units in the housing assisted, are limited, restricted, or determined under law or regulation based on the income of the occupying families. 42 USC 1437f SEC. 958. PREFERENCES FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS ON HAWAIIAN HOME- note. LANDS UNDER HUD PROGRAMS. (a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall provide a preference to native Hawaiians for housing assistance programs described in subsection (b) for housing located on Hawaiian home lands. (b) ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.—For purposes of subsection (a), the Federal housing assistance programs described in this subsection are— (1) the public housing and project-based section 8 assistance programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937; (2) the program under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959; and (3) the programs under the National Housing Act.