Connecticut General Statutes Title 8. Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development § 8-119bb. Declaration of policy

It is hereby declared (1) that there exists in the state an acute shortage of decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for low income persons at rents which they can afford to pay; that, within the state, low income persons are forced to reside in unsafe and unsanitary accommodations; and that such persons are forced to occupy overcrowded and congested dwelling accommodations; (2) that the shortage of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for low income persons cannot be relieved through the operation of private enterprise, and that the construction of housing accommodations for low income persons would, therefore, not be competitive with private enterprise; and (3) that the construction of new housing or rehabilitation of existing housing accommodations to provide safe and sanitary dwelling facilities for low income persons are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent, and the necessity in the public interest for the provisions hereinafter enacted is declared as a matter of legislative determination.