Sec. 393.002.  LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS;  PURPOSE.  (a)  The legislature has found in the Housing Authorities Law (Chapter 392) that:
(1)  unsafe and unsanitary housing conditions exist in this state for persons of low income;
(2)  there is a shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings for those persons;
(3)  those conditions require excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for crime prevention and punishment, public health and safety, fire and accident protection, and other public services and facilities;  and
(4)  the public interest requires the remedying of those conditions.
(b)  The legislature finds and declares that:
(1)  the assistance provided under this chapter to remedy the conditions described in the Housing Authorities Law constitutes a public purpose and an essential governmental function for which public money may be spent and other aid given;
(2)  it is a proper public purpose for a public body to aid a housing authority that operates within the boundaries or jurisdiction of the public body or to aid a housing project within its boundaries or jurisdiction because the public body derives immediate benefits and advantages from the authority or project;  and
(3)  this chapter is necessary in the public interest.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.