Section 219-B. Definitions

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other
  article of this chapter the following terms, whenever used  or  referred
  to  in  this  article,  shall  have  the  following  meanings,  unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
    1. The term "emergency project" means a specific work or  improvement,
  including  lands,  buildings  and  improvements,  acquired, constructed,
  altered,  renovated,   or   reused   to   provide   emergency   dwelling
  accommodations  for  eligible  tenants,  as  hereafter  defined  in this
  section, together with such  social,  recreational,  communal  or  other
  non-housing  facilities  as  may  be  deemed by the authority or city or
  government undertaking such project  to  be  incidental  or  appurtenant
  thereto.  Emergency  projects  as  defined  herein  shall  be  deemed to
  constitute low rent housing within the meaning of  article  eighteen  of
  the  constitution and shall be deemed to be in conformity with a plan or
  undertaking  for  the  clearance,  replanning  and   reconstruction   or
  rehabilitation of a substandard and insanitary area and for recreational
  and other facilities incidental or appurtenant thereto.
    2.  The  term  "eligible  tenant"  means:  (a)  distressed families of
  servicemen; (b) distressed veterans and their families;  (c)  distressed
  single  servicemen  and  veterans;  and  (d) other distressed persons or
  families of low income. The term "servicemen" shall include  any  person
  who is serving, and the term "veterans" shall include any person who has
  served during world war II, under conditions other than dishonorable, in
  the  military  or  naval  forces  or  the  merchant marine of the United
  States. Persons and families who are without adequate housing because of
  eviction or inadequate income or for other reasons, or are  affected  by
  unusual  hardships, and are unable to find adequate housing within their
  financial reach shall be deemed to be distressed.   Eligible tenants  as
  defined  herein  shall  be deemed to be persons of low income within the
  meaning of article eighteen of the constitution. Subject to the terms of
  any contract with a government, an authority shall  have  the  power  to
  select eligible tenants for emergency projects.