It is hereby declared that there exists an acute shortage of housing in the State of Illinois; that this condition requires that provision be made for the relocation of dwellings on real property acquired for highway rights-of-way; that the necessity in the public interest for the provisions hereinafter enacted is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.

(from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 103)

(Source: Laws 1949, p. 1023.)