It is determined that it is the policy of this State to provide a necessary means to prevent the deterioration of housing, the decline of neighborhoods and surrounding areas, and the problems associated with deterioration and decline; that these conditions are detrimental not only to the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the State, but reduce economic values and impair private investments and public revenues; that the support of corporations hereinafter described is necessary and desirable to alleviate those problems, and the rehabilitation of substandard housing as proposed in this act is a public purpose and a public use for which public money may be borrowed, expended, loaned and granted; and that the necessity in the public interest for provisions hereinafter enacted is a matter of legislative determination.

L. 1987, c. 50, s. 3.