2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 66 - Powers of Authority.

* § 66. Powers of authority. An authority shall constitute a body both
  corporate and politic. It shall have the following powers in addition to
  others herein granted.
To  investigate into living and housing conditions in the county, city
  or village and into the means and methods of improving such  conditions;
  to  determine  where unsanitary or substandard housing conditions exist;
  to study and make  recommendations  concerning  the  municipal  plan  in
  relation  to  the problems of clearing, replanning and reconstruction of
  areas and the providing of housing accommodations  for  persons  of  low
  income, and to cooperate with any municipal or regional planning agency;
  to  prepare,  carry out and operate projects; to construct, reconstruct,
  improve,  alter  or  repair  or  to  provide   for   the   construction,
  reconstruction,  improvement, alteration or repair of any project or any
  part thereof; to take over any project undertaken by any government;  to
  act as agent for the federal government in connection with a project; to
  arrange  with  the  county, city or village or with a government for the
  furnishing,  planning,  replanning,  opening,  grading  or  closing   of
  streets,  roads,  roadways,  alleys or other places or facilities or for
  the acquisition by the municipality or  by  a  government  of  property,
  options or property rights or for the furnishing of property or services
  in  connection  with  a  project; to lease or rent any of the housing or
  other accommodations or any  of  the  lands,  buildings,  structures  or
  facilities embraced in any project and to establish and revise the rents
  or  charges therefor; to enter upon any building or property in order to
  conduct investigations or to make  surveys  or  soundings  necessary  to
  carry  out  the  purposes  of  the authority; to purchase, lease, obtain
  options upon, acquire by eminent domain or  otherwise,  sell,  exchange,
  transfer,  assign  or  mortgage  any  property  real  or personal or any
  interest therein; to acquire  any  property  real  or  personal  or  any
  interest  therein  from  any  person, firm, corporation or government by
  gift, grant,  bequest  or  devise;  to  own,  hold,  clear  and  improve
  property;  to  insure  or  provide  for the insurance of the property or
  operations of the authority against such risks as the authority may deem
  advisable; to borrow money upon its bonds, notes,  debentures  or  other
  evidences  of  indebtedness  and  to  secure  the same by mortgages upon
  property held or to be held by it or by pledge of its  revenues,  or  in
  any  other  manner;  to limit by contract, the exercise of any powers of
  the authority granted in this article;  to  invest  any  funds  held  in
  reserves  or  sinking  funds,  or  any  funds not required for immediate
  disbursement in property  or  securities  in  which  savings  banks  may
  legally  invest  funds  subject to their control; to sue and be sued; to
  have a seal and to  alter  the  same  at  pleasure;  to  have  perpetual
  succession;   to  make  and  execute  contracts  and  other  instruments
  necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the  authority;
  to  make  and  from  time  to  time  amend and repeal by-laws, rules and
  regulations not inconsistent with this article to carry into effect  the
  powers  and  purposes  of  the  authority;  to  conduct examinations and
  investigations and to hear testimony and take proof under oath at public
  or private hearings on any matter material for its information; to issue
  subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses  or  the  production  of
  books  and  papers  and  to  issue  commissions  for  the examination of
  witnesses who are out of the  state  or  unable  to  attend  before  the
  authority, or excused from attendance; and to do all things necessary or
  convenient  to  carry  out the powers given in this article.  Any of the
  investigations or examinations provided  for  in  this  article  may  be
  conducted by the authority or by a committee appointed by it, consisting
  of  one  or  more  members  thereof,  or by counsel, or by an officer or
  employee specially authorized by the authority to conduct it. Any member

  of the authority, its counsel, or any person designated by it to conduct
  an investigation or examination shall have power  to  administer  oaths,
  take affidavits and issue subpoenas or commissions.
* NB  The  text  of  Article  5 of the former State Housing Law (cited
  herein as the "Municipal Housing  Authorities  Law"),  as  such  article
  existed  immediately  prior  to  its  repeal  pursuant to section 227 of
  Chapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of  reference
  and  historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the
  New York City Housing Authority pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.