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.