The trial court, in considering the statutory scheme in passing upon the allegations of the relevant counts, could determine, as a matter of law, that the BHA, which was a separate corporate entity from the city of Bridgeport, “owned” this project. The trial court could make this determination in construing the statutory scheme of part I of chapter 128 of the General Statutes. The interpretation of a statute is a question of law, *173not fact. Robinson v. Unemployment Security Board of Review, 181 Conn. 1, 6, 434 A.2d 293 (1980). General Statutes § 8-404 provides: “In each municipality of the state there is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the ‘housing authority’ of the municipality . . . .” There can be no question under the allegations of the complaint that the BHA is “a public body corporate and politic” under the statute and, therefore, is a viable corporate entity capable of executing the powers conferred and subject to the liabilities directly attendant to its statutory being under the statutory scheme of part I of chapter 128 of the General Statutes. Among its powers, the BHA could “own” real property as it admittedly did. General Statutes § 8-44.5 It could also “operate” a housing project *174as it did. General Statutes § 8-44. Even though the “chief executive officer” of the governing body of a *175municipality (Bridgeport) “appoints] . . . thecomissioners of the [housing] authority”; General Statutes § 8-41;6 it is the housing authority, not the municipal*176ity, who “shall protect and save harmless any commissioner . . . from financial loss and expense, including legal fees and costs, if any, arising out of any claim, *177demand, suit or judgment by reason of alleged negligence ... on the part of such commissioner . . . while acting in the discharge of his duties.” General Statutes § 8-41a.7 A housing “authority” has the “power to issue bonds,” and such “bonds and other obligations of [a housing authority] shall not be obligations of the municipality.” General Statutes § 8-52.8 This is *178another of the indicia of its corporate independence. Because a “housing authority” is solely a creature of statute, allegations in an action seeking to make it liable in negligence must recognize its statutory limitations. We note, in addition, that the plaintiff admitted that the city of Bridgeport did not own this project in her answers to the defendants’ requests for admission. This the trial court also could have considered on the matter of ownership. See Chevette v. U-Haul Co. of New *179Mexico, 7 Conn. App. 617, 510 A.2d 206 (1986). Moreover, at oral argument, counsel indicated that the plaintiff had admitted that the city of Bridgeport did not own this project. In addition, the “Cooperation Agreement” to which the plaintiff specifically refers in the allegations of the complaint speaks not only to that agreement, that “shall continue in full force and effect with respect to [this] Project only so long as title thereto ... is held by the [Bridgeport Housing] Authority” (emphasis added), but also to other indicia of ownership by the BHA such as the construction and maintenance of sidewalks, curbs and gutters within the project “in the same manner as other private owners of property within the City,” as well as speaking to the city’s cooperation in “vacating and discontinuing any streets and alleys . . . within the Project.” The trial court could properly have considered such matters in ruling on the motion to strike. See Utley v. Nolan, 134 Conn. 376, 377, 58 A.2d 9 (1948). In any event, the construction of a written contract is a question of law for the court. Spring v. Nagle, 104 Conn. 23, 26-27, 131 A.744 (1926). Thus, the plaintiff’s allegations concerning the defendant city’s negligence as a landlord must fail.