Sections one to forty-four, inclusive, except sections thirty-two and thirty-three, shall, as far as apt, be applicable to projects developed under this section and to housing authorities while engaged in developing and administering such projects; provided, that no application for state financial assistance under this section shall be accepted by the department after January the first, nineteen hundred and sixty-five.
An authority shall not acquire land for the site of a relocation project by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine or chapter eighty A, or by purchase, gift or otherwise, unless such land is entirely or almost entirely unoccupied by inhabited dwellings; provided, however, than an authority may acquire a completed dwelling or a group of dwellings for a relocation project if acquisition of such does not involve their demolition. The total number of dwelling units to be created in any one city or town in connection with relocation projects, for which state assistance may be granted, shall not exceed two per cent of the total of dwelling units in such city or town as reported by the United States census of nineteen hundred and fifty.
Upon the completion or acquisition of a project by a housing authority, it shall be maintained and operated by such authority. In the operation or management of relocation projects, an authority shall at all times observe the following requirements with respect to rentals and tenant selection:—