Tex. Local Government Code § 373.004: GOALS OF PROGRAM.

Through a community development program, a municipality may conduct work or activities designed to:

(1) improve the living and economic conditions of persons of low and moderate income;

(2) benefit low or moderate income neighborhoods;

(3) aid in the prevention or elimination of slums and blighted areas;

(4) aid a federally assisted new community; or

(5) meet other urgent community development needs, including an activity or function specified for a community development program that incorporates a federally assisted new community.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.