Sec. 373A.001. PURPOSE

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The purpose of this chapter is to:
(1) promote the ability of municipalities to increase home ownership, provide affordable housing, and prevent the involuntary loss of homesteads by existing low-income and moderate-income homeowners living in disadvantaged neighborhoods;
(2) protect a municipality's interest in improving economic and social conditions within disadvantaged communities by enhancing the viability of home ownership among low-income and moderate-income residents in areas experiencing economic pressures; and
(3) provide municipalities with a means to expand and protect the homestead interests of low-income and moderate-income families.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 495 , Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005.

                    
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