Nevada § 319.020 - Legislative findings and declaration; liberal construction

§ 319.020. Legislative findings and declaration; liberal construction

The Legislature finds and declares that: 1. There exists a serious shortage of decent, safe and sanitary housing in this State

available to persons and families of low and moderate income and that many other persons

and families are unable to secure or afford, without assistance, decent, safe and

sanitary housing. 2. This condition is conducive to disease, crime, environmental decline and poverty,

impairs the economic value of large areas, which are characterized by depreciated

value, impaired investments, reduced capacity to pay taxes, and lack of new development

to meet the needs of area residents, and is a menace to the health, safety, morals

and welfare of the residents of this State. 3. This condition results in a loss of population and further deterioration accompanied

by added costs to communities for creation of new public facilities and services elsewhere. 4. It is difficult and uneconomic for individual owners independently to remedy this

condition. 5. One major cause of this condition has been recurrent shortages of money from private

sources, and such shortages have contributed to reductions in construction of new

residential housing and have made the sale and purchase of existing residential housing

a virtual impossibility in certain parts of the State. Other causes of this condition include increases in rental values and decreases in

the availability of federal funding for housing. 6. The ordinary operations of private enterprise have not in the past corrected these

conditions. 7. The reduction in housing construction has caused substantial unemployment and underemployment

in the construction industry which, together with the shortage of affordable housing,

results in hardships, wastes human resources, increases the public assistance burdens

of the State, impairs the security of family life, impedes the economic and physical

development of the State and adversely affects the welfare, health and prosperity

of all the people of this State. 8. A stable supply of adequate money for the financing and provision of other assistance

to obtain housing is required to encourage new housing in an orderly and sustained

manner, to increase the availability of affordable housing, and thereby to reduce

these detrimental results. 9. It is necessary to create a Housing Division in the Department of Business and

Industry to encourage the investment of private capital and stimulate the financing

of housing through the use of public financing to provide mortgage loans and to make

loans to and purchase mortgage loans from mortgage lenders, and to perform any other

function authorized by this chapter. 10. It is appropriate for the Housing Division to issue obligations regardless of

their characterization for the purposes of federal income taxation by the United States

Department of the Treasury. 11. All of the purposes set forth in this chapter are public purposes and uses for

which public money may be borrowed, expended, advanced, loaned or granted. This chapter must be liberally construed to accomplish the public purposes and alleviate

the detrimental conditions set forth in this section.