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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 122, Redevelopment Agency.
A. 
There exist in the City insanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations, and persons of low income are forced to reside in such insanitary or unsafe accommodations; and in the City there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations available at rents which persons of low income can afford, and such persons are forced to occupy overcrowded and congested dwelling accommodations. The aforesaid conditions cause an increase in and spread of disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the City and impair economic values, and those conditions necessitate 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.
B. 
These areas in the City cannot be cleared, nor can the shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons of low income be relieved, through the operation of private enterprise, and the construction of housing projects for persons of low income, as defined in the Local Housing Authorities Law, would therefore not be competitive with private enterprise.
C. 
The clearance, replanning and reconstruction of the areas in which insanitary or unsafe housing conditions exist and the providing of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations by any public body for persons of low incomes are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired and are governmental functions.
D. 
It is in the public interest that work on projects for such purposes be commenced as soon as possible in order to relieve unemployment.
The body corporate and politic known as the "Housing Authority of the City of Camden," heretofore created, established and empowered pursuant to the provisions of the Local Housing Authority Law, N.J.S.A. 55:14A-1 et seq., as amended and supplemented, is hereby continued.
A. 
There exist in the City blighted areas, or areas in the process of becoming blighted, which impair economic values and tax revenues, cause an increase in and spread of disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the City. These conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for crime prevention and punishment, for public health and safety, for fire and accident protection and for other public services and facilities.
B. 
There are also certain areas where the condition of the title, the diverse ownership of land, the street or lot layouts or other conditions prevent a proper development or redevelopment of said areas.
C. 
The clearance, replanning and preparation for rebuilding of the aforesaid areas, and the prevention or reduction of blight and its causes, are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired, by eminent domain or otherwise, and are governmental functions. Redevelopment activities will stimulate more residential construction, the providing of better housing and more desirable neighborhood and community development, at lower costs, and it is necessary in the public interest that preparation for such projects be made without delay.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Redevelopment Agencies Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55C-1 et seq., as amended and supplemented, the Housing Authority of the City of Camden, New Jersey, be, and the same hereby is, authorized to carry out redevelopment projects, as defined in said law, and to have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities conferred and to be subject to the limitations imposed by said law for this purpose.