§ 470. Policy and purposes of article. It is hereby declared and found
that there exists in municipalities within the state substandard and
unsanitary areas and neighborhoods containing deteriorated one to four
unit private and multiple dwellings, and that the rehabilitation or
preservation of such dwellings is necessary in order to aid in the
prevention and elimination of slums and blight in such areas and
neighborhoods.

It further is found that there exists in such municipalities a
seriously inadequate supply of safe and sanitary one to four unit
private and multiple dwellings, particularly for persons of low and
moderate income, that existing non-compliance with local housing codes
and with the multiple dwelling law and the multiple residence law
threatens to decrease such supply, and that the rehabilitation,
preservation and improvement of such dwellings is necessary to arrest
such conditions of deterioration.

It further is found that the elimination of such conditions by
rehabilitation or other improvements in one to four unit private and
multiple dwellings cannot be readily provided without public aid in the
form of low interest loans or grants to owners of such one to four unit
dwellings.

The rehabilitation, preservation or other improvement of such private
and multiple dwellings is hereby declared a public purpose and a
municipal purpose for which public monies may be loaned or granted.

In order, further, to promote the preservation and rehabilitation of
such dwellings, it is hereby declared that additional provisions should
be made to provide public monies for interest reduction subsidies for
private loans made by private investors for such rehabilitation.

The necessity in the public interest for the provisions of this
article is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.