New Jersey Statutes 52:27D-143. Legislative findings and declarations
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:27D-143
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The Legislature further finds and declares that rehabilitation and preservation of threatened but still viable neighborhoods to the maximum extent possible is best accomplished by the reconstruction, remodeling, improvement, restoration, or repair of residential housing to sound condition in conjunction with provision of expanded and improved community services and public improvements. Conservation of the State’s housing stock in order to provide a decent home is a worthy goal, but unless the services and facilities which are necessary to a complete and continuing satisfactory living environment are also provided, slums, blight and deterioration will not be arrested and neighborhoods will continue to decline. Restoration and maintenance of viable neighborhoods will be attained only if the housing resources and community services and public improvements, principally those for persons and families of low and moderate income, are attended to and simultaneously provided.
L.1975, c. 248, s. 2, eff. Oct. 30, 1975.