---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12211"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12211"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12211"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part E — National Community Economic Partnership"
  - "Subpart 3 — miscellaneous provisions"
---

# §12211. Definitions


As used in this part:

- (1) **Community development corporation—** The term “community development corporation” means a private, nonprofit corporation whose board of directors is comprised of business, civic and community leaders, and whose principal purpose includes the provision of low-income housing or community economic development projects that primarily benefit low-income individuals and communities.
- (2) **Local and private sector contribution—** The term “local and private sector contribution” means the funds available at the local level (by private financial institutions, [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and local governments) or by any private philanthropic organization and private, [nonprofit organizations](/usc/34/11103.md?p=23) that will be committed and used solely for the purpose of financing [private business enterprises](#4) in conjunction with amounts provided under this part.
- (3) **Population-losing community—** The term “population-losing community” means any county in which the net population loss is at least 7 percent from April 1, 1980 to April 1, 1990, as reported by the Bureau of the Census.
- (4) **Private business enterprise—** The term “private business enterprise” means any business enterprise that is engaged in the manufacture of a product, provision of a service, [construction](/usc/34/11103.md?p=10) or development of a facility, or that is involved in some other commercial, manufacturing or industrial activity, and that agrees to target job opportunities stemming from investments authorized under this part to certain individuals.
- (5) **Target area—** The term “target area” means any area defined in an application for assistance under this part that has a population whose income does not exceed the median for the area within which the target area is located.
- (6) **Very low-income community—** The term “very low-income community” means a community in which the median income of the residents of such community does not exceed 50 percent of the median income of the area.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31131, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1887.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13851 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.