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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 118
(iii) these conditions impede the development and maintenance of
healthy, safe, and viable communities;
(2) private sector financing is often unavailable for rehabilitation
because:
(i) owner-occupants of housing in need of rehabilitation often have
low incomes; and
(ii) nonoccupant owners often incur high risks in owning and
managing the housing;
(3) rehabilitating suitable housing:
(i) increases the economic life of the housing;
(ii) is often more economical and less disruptive than replacing the
housing and relocating its occupants;
(iii) can better promote community development when it is done
through organized housing rehabilitation programs;
(iv) is essential for sound community development; and
(v) can be helped by rehabilitating commercial buildings serving
communities where housing rehabilitation is desirable;
(4) it is a proper public purpose for which public money may be spent and
property acquired to:
(i) rehabilitate housing;
(ii) develop healthful, safe, and viable communities;
(iii) rehabilitate commercial buildings to help rehabilitate and
develop housing; and
(iv) provide healthful and safe housing for migratory workers to
maintain and expand the agricultural activities that are dependent on the labor of
these workers; and
(5) it is a proper public purpose for which public money may be spent to:
(i) improve, modify, and add to housing to increase the supply of
special housing for special populations, such as [the] elderly HOUSEHOLDS,
individuals with disabilities, and other disadvantaged residents of the State;
(ii) prevent lead poisoning by modifying older housing to provide a
lead-safe environment, as lead paint in older housing is a major source of lead
poisoning in children;
(iii) provide adequate indoor plumbing, water supply, and sewage
disposal systems for dwellings;
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