§ 45-33.2-2 - Legislative findings. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 45-33.2-2

   § 45-33.2-2  Legislative findings. –It is found and declared that for the public health, safety, morals, andwelfare of the people of the state generally, the increase of their commerce,welfare, and prosperity and the improvement of their housing, employment andeducational opportunities and general living conditions, as well as in order toremedy the conditions found to exist in the state as declared in §45-31-3, it is essential to provide new employment opportunities to prevent,arrest, and alleviate blighted, decayed, and substandard areas in cities andtowns, to increase the supply of housing available to homeowners and to tenantsat low rentals, to increase the tax base, to encourage the development ofundeveloped land in the town of West Greenwich, and to improve the generaleconomy of the state; and that it is the purpose of this chapter to provide anadditional and alternative means to cities and towns to fund and/or financemunicipal and other public facilities and residential, commercial andindustrial development and revitalization, home ownership; and programs tocombat poverty, improve municipal and neighborhood living conditions andprovide improved employment and educational opportunities, all to the publicbenefit and good, in the manner provided in this chapter.