N.Y. Public Housing Law § 219-a: Policy of state and purpose of article

§ 219-a. Policy of state and purpose of article. It is hereby

declared that there exists within the state, and particularly within

certain cities thereof, an acute shortage of housing; that low income

inhabitants of the state, and particularly demobilized servicemen of

world war II and their families, as well as the families of servicemen

still serving within the military and naval forces of the United States,

are unable to obtain adequate, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations

within their financial reach; that this condition is a menace to the

health, safety, morals, welfare and reasonable comfort of the citizens

of the state; that this condition has reached the stage of an acute

emergency which cannot be adequately and immediately alleviated by the

normal processes of construction of permanent housing and the

construction of permanent public housing projects in connection with

slum clearance, and that immediate mitigation is required by such

emergency means as are available; that this condition requires that

provision be made for public emergency housing as hereinafter provided;

that this condition requires that certain cities and authorities be

authorized to cooperate and enter into agreements with a government and

with each other to the end that emergency housing may be obtained as

expeditiously as possible; that this condition requires the temporary

suspension of various normal restrictions, prohibitions, limitations and

procedures to the end that emergency housing may be supplied with the

least possible delay; that the acquisition, construction, management,

operation, and disposition of such emergency housing and the real and

personal property and other facilities necessary, incidental or

appurtenant thereto is a public use for which public money may be spent,

private property acquired, and tax exemption granted; and that the

necessity in the public interest for the provisions hereinafter enacted

is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.