2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 69 - Acquisition of Property.

* §  69.  Acquisition of property. 1. When an authority has determined
  that unsanitary or substandard housing conditions exist in a section  or
  sections  of the municipality, it may secure options on real property in
  such areas or  elsewhere.  No  authority  may  purchase  or  condemn  or
  obligate   itself  to  purchase  or  condemn  real  property  except  in
  connection with a project approved, if a federal project, by the federal
  government, or if a non-federal project, by the mayor, and  in  case  of
  counties,  by  the  county  executive,  and  by  the  comptroller of the
  municipality. But an  authority  may  purchase  or  obligate  itself  to
  purchase  specific  real  property  for  proposed projects prior to such
  approval if such purchase is consented to  in  writing  by  the  federal
  government in the case of a proposed federal project, or by the mayor or
  county  executive  and  the  comptroller  in  the  case  of  a  proposed
  non-federal project. An authority may, with the approval of the  federal
  government,  lease  or acquire by purchase, eminent domain or otherwise,
  any property, real or personal, which it  may  deem  necessary  for  any
  project  or  housing  plan or undertaking of the federal government, and
  may, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem  advisable,  with  or
  without  consideration, lease, transfer, assign, convey, or deliver such
  property or possession thereof to such government.
2.  In  connection  with  projects  located  within  their  respective
  territorial  boundaries,  a  municipality  or  government may, upon such
  terms, with or without consideration, as it may deem  advisable,  grant,
  sell,  convey  or  lease  any  of  its  property to an authority or to a
  government, or render services or provide and maintain parks, sewage, or
  other facilities  adjacent  to  or  in  connection  with  a  project.  A
  municipality  may  enter  into  an  agreement  with  an  authority  or a
  government, upon such terms as it  shall  determine,  with  or  without
  compensation,  to  open,  pave,  install,  close  or change the grade of
  streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks, or other places, to  change
  the  municipal  map,  to plan, replan, zone of rezone any section of the
  municipality.  In  connection  with  the  exercise  of  this   power   a
  municipality may, if it deems advisable, incur the entire expense of any
  such  public  improvements  located  within  its  territorial boundaries
  without  assessment  against  abutting  property  owners.  Any  statute,
  charter,  local  law  or  ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding, any
  grant, sale, conveyance or lease  may  be  made  by  a  municipality  or
  government  to an authority or government, in connection with a project,
  without appraisal, public notice, advertisement or public bidding.
* 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.