2021 New York Laws
PVH - Private Housing Finance
Article 17 - Housing and Community Preservation in Rural Areas
1001 - Legislative Findings and Statement of Policy.

§  1001. Legislative findings and statement of policy. The legislature
  hereby finds and declares that there exist in certain rural areas of the
  state significant unmet housing needs of persons and families of low  or
  moderate  income,  numerous  housing units which are deteriorating or in
  need of rehabilitation or improvement, and related factors demonstrating
  a need for increased attention to  housing  preservation  and  community
  revitalization in such areas.  Meeting the housing and community renewal
  needs of rural areas entails special problems arising from the dispersal
  of population over wide areas, the existence of substandard areas in the
  form  of  small,  often isolated, pockets of poverty rather than massive
  concentrations, the extremely limited resources of the  small  units  of
  local government involved, and other characteristics of these areas.
Locally  based not-for-profit organizations can play a crucial role in
  housing preservation and community revitalization. The public policy  of
  support  for  such  organizations  embodied  in  article sixteen of this
  chapter, and the legislative findings set forth  in  such  article,  are
  hereby reaffirmed. The legislature further finds and determines that the
  needs  of  rural  areas  and  of  existing  and potential not-for-profit
  organizations serving such areas will  be  best  met  by  a  program  of
  support  for  such organizations and their activities similar to that in
  article  sixteen  of  this  chapter  but  recognizing  the   distinctive
  characteristics  of  such  areas.  It  is the purpose of this article to
  establish such a program within the division of  housing  and  community
  renewal.
It  is  further declared to be the public policy of the state that all
  programs  of  housing  and  community  assistance  administered  by  the
  division  of  housing  and community renewal or other agencies should be
  carried out with due regard for the special conditions in and  needs  of
  the rural areas of the state.