Sec. 1. Legislative Findings and Declaration of Purpose. It is hereby found and declared that in this state there is a shortage of decent, safe and sanitary housing that most people can afford; that the shortage of such housing is a threat to the health, safety, morals and welfare of Indiana residents and is not transitory and self-curing; that the cost of financing such housing is a major and substantial factor affecting the supply and cost of decent, safe and sanitary housing built by private enterprise; that the purpose of this chapter is to provide a means of lowering the cost of financing ownership by Indiana residents of decent, safe and sanitary housing; that such financing of residential ownership will (a) provide for and promote the public health, safety, morals, and welfare, (b) stimulate construction of new housing and remodeling and improvement of existing housing, thereby relieving conditions of unemployment and encouraging the increase of industry and commercial activity and economic development so as to reduce the evils attendant upon unemployment, (c) assist low and moderate income people in acquiring and owning decent, safe and sanitary housing which they can afford, (d) promote the integration of families of varying economic means, and (e) preserve and increase the ad valorem property tax base in this state; that the foregoing are public purposes; and that the necessity for the provisions of this chapter is a matter of legislative determination.

As added by Acts 1979, P.L.47, SEC.1.