§ 156. Selection of tenants. Subject to the terms of any loan or\nsubsidy contract with a government, an authority shall have the power to\nselect tenants for its projects. It shall observe the following\nstandards with respect thereto:\n 1. The dwellings in the project shall be available solely a. for\npersons or families of low income whose probable aggregate annual income\nduring the period of occupancy does not exceed six times the rental\n(including the value or cost to them of heat, light, water and cooking\nfuel) of the dwellings to be furnished such persons or families, except\nthat in the case of persons or families with four or more dependents,\nsuch ratio shall not exceed seven to one; in calculating annual income,\nsocial security payments and income received from pension funds by any\nperson sixty-two years of age or more shall be excluded up to a total\nmaximum amount of seventy-five dollars per month;\n b. also for persons or surviving spouses of persons who\n (1) have served in the armed forces of the United States for a period\nof at least six months (or any shorter period which terminated due to\ndeath or injury incurred in such service), provided some portion of the\nperiod of service was between the first of November, nineteen hundred\nfifty-five to the seventh day of May, nineteen hundred seventy-five, and\n (2) (i) have been thereafter discharged or released therefrom under\nconditions other than dishonorable, or (ii) have a qualifying condition,\nas defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and have\nreceived a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such\nservice, or (iii) are discharged LGBT veterans, as defined in section\none of the veterans' services law, and have received a discharge other\nthan bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (iv) died in such\nservice, not more than five years prior to the time of application for\nadmission to such project, and\n (3) whose probable aggregate annual income during the period of\noccupancy does not exceed seven times the rental (including the value or\ncost to them of heat, light, water and cooking fuel) of the dwellings to\nbe furnished such persons or families, except that in the case of\npersons or families with four or more dependents, such ratio shall not\nexceed eight to one.\n The "probable aggregate annual income" means the annual income of the\nchief wage earner of the family plus all other income of other members\nof the family over the age of twenty-one years, plus a proportion of the\nincome of members under the age of twenty-one years to be determined by\nthe authority solely for the purpose of establishing rent to be paid\nexcept that the authority may exclude a proportion of the income of\nother members of the family over the age of twenty-one years for the\npurpose of determining eligibility for admission or continued occupancy,\nor for establishing rental of such family, or for all such purposes,\nsubject to approval by the commissioner with respect to state projects.\n 2. The authority may rent or lease to a person or family a dwelling\nunit, or to a duly authorized agency, as defined in section three\nhundred seventy-one of the social services law, for the operation of\nagency boarding homes or group homes or to a non-profit corporation\norganized under the membership corporations law or to any public agency\nas defined in section four hundred sixty-one of the general municipal\nlaw which provides residences and social services to dependent aged\npersons or to a social services official for any purpose authorized\nunder the social services law and for which the social services official\nhas authority to rent or lease dwelling units, one or more dwelling\nunits, consisting of a room or number of rooms, but no greater number\nthan it deems necessary to provide safe and sanitary accommodations to\nthe proposed occupants thereof, without overcrowding.\n 3. In the event that the income of the family r
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