The Guam Legislature finds and declares that decent housing and genuine employment opportunities for all the people of Guam are vital to the Guam’s future peace and prosperity, for all of the following reasons:

(a) Hazardous, congested and unsanitary housing debilitates occupants’ health to the point of impairing motivation and achievement.

(b) Lack of employment opportunity creates despair and frustration which may precipitate violence.

(c) Unfit housing and lack of employment opportunity depend on each other to perpetuate a system of dependency and hopelessness which drains Guam of its valuable financial and human resources.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 24-110:2 (Nov. 21, 1997).