Pennsylvania Statutes Title 35 P.S. Health and Safety § 1641. Declaration of Public Emergency

It is hereby declared that an acute housing shortage exists in many areas of this State, so that families of returning veterans and of servicemen are unable to obtain housing, and that returning veterans are being denied their rights to education because of the lack of housing at educational institutions, and therefore a public exigency, emergency and distress now exists, and the providing of housing for such persons constitutes a public use and purpose for which public money should be spent and private property acquired and is a governmental function of State concern.