Johnson v. Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

This is a taxpayer’s suit in equity, challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted Housing Finance Agency Law, Act of December 5,1972, P. L. 1259, §§1 et seq., 35 P.S. §§1680.101 et seq. (Supp. 1973). This Court has assumed plenary jurisdiction.1 Given the innovativeness of the undertaking authorized by the *332Housing Finance Agency Law, “[i]t [has] naturally invite[d] . . . the attack of those who are inclined to regard all experiments in our social and economic life as presumptively unconstitutional.” Dornan v. Philadelphia Housing Authority, 331 Pa.…