(310 ILCS 10/8.1) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 8.1)
Sec. 8.1.
An Authority has power to investigate living and housing
conditions, housing needs and markets in its area of operation and the
means and methods of improving conditions and meeting needs
through private and public means; to determine where unsanitary or
substandard housing conditions exist; to ascertain which dwellings in its
area of operation do not meet such standards as it may determine are
necessary for safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations and to report its
findings to the appropriate government in the territory in which the
dwellings are located; to study and make recommendations concerning the
plan of the area of operation in relation to the problems of acquisition,
clearing, replanning, and reconstruction of areas in which unsanitary or
substandard conditions exist or which are needed for increasing the supply
of decent, safe and sanitary and affordable dwellings and for related community
development, and the providing of housing accommodations and subsidies
for persons of low income, and to cooperate with any regional or State
planning agencies or the planning agency of any city, village or
incorporated town wholly or partly within its area of operation.
(Source: P.A. 87-200.)
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