(1) "Community facilities" means the land, buildings, improvements, and equipment for such recreational, community, educational, and commercial facilities as the authority determines improve the quality of an eligible housing unit.

(2) "Eligible housing unit" means real and personal property located in the state constituting single or multifamily dwelling units suitable for occupancy by low and moderate income families and such community facilities as may be incidental or appurtenant thereto; provided, however, that all multifamily dwelling units located within an apartment complex shall qualify as "eligible housing units" if at least 20 percent of the multifamily dwelling units within the complex are occupied by or are held available for occupancy by low and moderate income families.

(3) "Low and moderate income families" means persons and families of one or more persons, irrespective of race, creed, national origin, or sex determined by the authority to require such assistance as is made available by this article on account of insufficient personal or family income, taking into consideration, without limitation, such factors as:

(A) The amount of total income of such persons and families available for housing needs;

(B) The size of the families;

(C) The cost and condition of housing facilities available;

(D) The ability of such persons and families to compete successfully in the normal private housing market and to pay the amounts at which private enterprise is providing sanitary, decent, and safe housing; and

(E) If appropriate, standards established for various federal programs with respect to housing determining eligibility based on income of such persons and families.

(4) "Mortgage lenders" means national banking associations, banks chartered under the laws of the state, savings and building and loan associations chartered under the laws of the state or of the United States of America, the Federal National Mortgage Association, and federal or state credit unions. The term shall also include mortgage bankers and other financial institutions or governmental agencies which are authorized to deal in mortgages insured or guaranteed by the federal government and other entities authorized to extend loans for single or multifamily housing under the laws of the state.

(5) "Mortgage loans" means notes and other evidences of indebtedness secured by mortgages.

(6) "Mortgaged property" means all properties, real, personal, and mixed, and all interests therein, including grants or subsidies with respect thereto, mortgaged, pledged, or otherwise provided in any manner as security for mortgage loans or loans to mortgage lenders.

(7) "Mortgages" means security deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust, and other instruments granting security interests in real and personal properties constituting eligible housing units.