A local housing authority may provide housing accommodation—
by erecting houses, or converting buildings into houses, on land acquired by them for the purposes of this Part, or
by acquiring houses.
The authority may alter, enlarge, repair or improve a house so erected, converted or acquired.
These powers may equally be exercised in relation to land acquired for the purpose—
of disposing of houses provided, or to be provided, on the land, or
of disposing of the land to a person who intends to provide housing accommodation on it.
A local housing authority may not under this Part provide a cottage with a garden of more than one acre.
Nothing in this Act shall be taken to require (or to have at any time required) a local housing authority itself to acquire or hold any houses or other land for the purposes of this Part.