N.Y. Public Health Law § 2851: Policy and purposes of article

§ 2851. Policy and purposes of article. It is hereby declared that a

serious shortage of safe and sanitary nursing home accommodations for

persons of low income, whose need for combined nursing care, lodging and

board cannot readily be provided by the ordinary unaided operations of

private enterprise, exists in many communities throughout the state;

that there is need for non-profit corporations to construct, acquire,

reconstruct, rehabilitate and improve, with loan participation by the

New York state housing finance agency or the New York state medical care

facilities finance agency, as the case may be, low cost nursing home

accommodations, including such other facilities as may be incidental and

appurtenant thereto, to meet such needs in furtherance of articles

seventeen and eighteen of the constitution, and for public assistance to

such companies by the granting of tax exemptions; that it is the policy

of the state to promote the provision of such nursing home

accommodations and that such provision is a public use and purpose.