§ 23-11-31 — Houses for workers in national defense and veterans

Any housing authority may undertake the development and administration of projects to
assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense
activities who, as determined by the housing authority, would not otherwise be able to secure
safe and sanitary dwellings within the vicinity thereof. In the ownership, development, or
administration of such projects, a housing authority has all the rights, powers, privileges, and
immunities that such authority has under any provisions of law relating to the ownership,
development, or administration of slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low
income. The authority shall exercise such rights, powers, and privileges as though all the
provisions of law applicable to slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low income
were applicable to projects developed or administered to assure the availability of safe and
sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities as provided in this section.
Housing projects developed or administered hereunder constitute housing projects under the
provisions of this chapter. When a housing authority finds that within its area of operation, or any
part thereof, there is an acute shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings which impedes the
national defense program or the general welfare of veterans and that necessary and safe and
sanitary dwellings would not otherwise be provided when needed for such persons, any project
developed or administered by such housing authority or by any housing authority cooperating
with such authority pursuant to this section, with the financial aid of the federal government or

as agent for the federal government as hereinafter provided, is not subject to the limitations
provided in sections 23-11-13 and 23-11-14. Any such finding must be conclusive in any suit,
action, or other proceeding. A housing authority may make payments in such amounts as it finds
necessary or desirable for any services, facilities, works, privileges, or improvements furnished
for or in connection with any such projects. After the national defense period any such projects
owned and administered by a housing authority must be administered in accordance with the
preceding sections of this chapter except veterans are not subject to the limitations in section
23-11-14.