1966

ARTICLE 44A

ARTICLE 44A.

HOUSING AUTHORITIES.

	1-2. Unsafe dwelling accommodations;	14-16. Bonds and mortgages; conditions.
	slum areas.	17-18; Powers as to enforcement, account-
	3. Definitions.	ing, etc.
	4. Housing Authority created.	19. Exemption of property from levy, sale,
	5. Resolution by City; Commissioners.	etc.
	6-7. Commissioner or employee not to be	20. Power to borrow money, accept grants,
	interested in housing project; re-	etc.
	moval.	21. Public property.
	8. Powers.	22. Reports; local housing authorities.
	9-10. Housing projects.	23. Separability.
	11-13. Financing; condemnation; zoning.

1937, ch. 517, sec. 1.

1. This Article may be referred to as the "Housing Authorities Law."

1937, ch. 537, sec. 2.

2. It is hereby declared, (a) That there exist in the State insanitary
or unsafe dwelling accommodations and that persons of low income are
forced to reside in such insanitary or unsafe accommodations; that within
the State there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations
available at rents which persons of low income can afford and that such
persons are forced to occupy overcrowded and congested dwelling accommo-
dations; that the aforesaid conditions cause an increase in and spread of
disease and crime and constitute a menace to health, safety, morals and
welfare of the residents of the State and impair economic values; that these
conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public
funds for crime prevention and punishment, public health and safety, fire
and accident protection, and other public services and facilities; (b) That
these slum areas cannot be cleared, nor can the shortage of safe and sanitary
dwellings for persons of low income be relieved, through the operation of
private enterprise, and that the construction of housing projects for persons
of low income (as herein defined) would therefore not be competitive with
private enterprise; (c) That the clearance, replanning and reconstruction
of the areas in which insanitary or unsafe housing conditions exist and the
providing of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low
income are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent
and private property acquired; that it is in the public interest that work
on such projects be commenced as soon as possible in order to relieve unem-
ployment which now constitutes an emergency; and the necessity in the
public interest for the provisions hereinafter enacted, is hereby declared as
a matter of legislative determination.