(f) The department shall, after consultation with the secretary of aging and independence, promulgate rules and regulations relative to uniform standards for tenant selection which shall establish the order of priority governing the selection of tenants, and a housing authority thereafter shall be bound by such standards in its selection of tenants. Such rules and regulations shall provide that handicapped persons and their families, who are eligible under the provisions of paragraph (a), shall receive priority in placement in not less that five per cent of all dwelling units provided under any authorization for housing of elderly persons of low income approved after January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.
(g) following receipt of project plans and descriptions submitted to the department and the department of aging and independence, the department shall consult with the department of aging and independence in all phases of the development and approval of said plans and submissions. No contracts between the department and a housing authority for state financial assistance under sections thirty-eight to forty-one, inclusive, shall be entered into without prior review and comment of the secretary of aging and independence.