The legislature finds that:
A. current economic conditions, federal housing policies and declining resources at the federal, state and local levels affect adversely the ability of low-income persons to obtain safe, decent and affordable housing;
B. it is in the public interest to establish a continuously renewable resource to be known as the New Mexico low-income housing trust program to assist low-income citizens in meeting their basic housing needs; and
C. the program described in Subsection B of this section should, whenever feasible, be implemented through assistance in the form of loans or grants.
History: Laws 1994, ch. 146, § 2.