§ 3. Definitions. (a) "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of
the state division of housing and community renewal.

(b) "Corporation" shall mean the housing trust fund corporation as
established by section forty-five-a of the private housing finance law.

(c) "Single room housing project" shall mean a specific work or
improvement including lands, buildings and improvements acquired, owned,
rehabilitated or operated by a not-for-profit corporation to provide
single room housing accommodations to persons of low income.

(d) "Persons of lower income" shall mean those persons whose incomes
do not exceed eighty per centum of the median income for the area, as
determined by the corporation.