N.Y. Private Housing Finance Law § 1001: Legislative findings and statement of policy

§ 1001. Legislative findings and statement of policy. The legislature

hereby finds and declares that there exist in certain rural areas of the

state significant unmet housing needs of persons and families of low or

moderate income, numerous housing units which are deteriorating or in

need of rehabilitation or improvement, and related factors demonstrating

a need for increased attention to housing preservation and community

revitalization in such areas. Meeting the housing and community renewal

needs of rural areas entails special problems arising from the dispersal

of population over wide areas, the existence of substandard areas in the

form of small, often isolated, pockets of poverty rather than massive

concentrations, the extremely limited resources of the small units of

local government involved, and other characteristics of these areas.

Locally based not-for-profit organizations can play a crucial role in

housing preservation and community revitalization. The public policy of

support for such organizations embodied in article sixteen of this

chapter, and the legislative findings set forth in such article, are

hereby reaffirmed. The legislature further finds and determines that the

needs of rural areas and of existing and potential not-for-profit

organizations serving such areas will be best met by a program of

support for such organizations and their activities similar to that in

article sixteen of this chapter but recognizing the distinctive

characteristics of such areas. It is the purpose of this article to

establish such a program within the division of housing and community

renewal.

It is further declared to be the public policy of the state that all

programs of housing and community assistance administered by the

division of housing and community renewal or other agencies should be

carried out with due regard for the special conditions in and needs of

the rural areas of the state.