N.Y. Public Housing Law § 210: Policy and purposes of article

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

there exists in municipalities in this state a seriously inadequate

supply of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons and

families of low income; that such shortage constitutes an emergency and

a grave menace to the health, safety, morals, welfare and comfort of

citizens of this state; that there exists in such municipalities a large

number of multiple dwellings which are inadequate, unsafe or insanitary

by reason of the absence of proper heating facilities or by reason of

the necessity for elimination of conditions dangerous to human life or

detrimental to health, including nuisances as defined, in section three

hundred nine of the multiple dwelling law, or for other rehabilitation

or improvement and which can be made adequate, safe and sanitary, by the

installation of proper heating facilities or by other rehabilitation or

improvement or by the elimination of such conditions; that such

installation, rehabilitation or improvement cannot readily be provided

by the ordinary unaided operation of private enterprise for occupancy by

persons or families of low income without public aid in the form of low

interest loans to owners of such multiple dwellings for the purpose of

such installation, rehabilitation or improvement; that the installation

of proper heating facilities in such multiple dwellings or other

rehabilitation or improvement thereof for occupancy by persons of low

income as defined in this article is a public use and a public purpose

for which public money may be loaned; that such conditions require the

provisions hereinafter enacted; and the necessity in the public interest

for the provisions hereinafter enacted is hereby declared as a matter of

legislative determination.