The Legislature, by enacting the Multiple Dwelling Law and the Multiple Residence Law, has provided standards for sufficient light, ventilation and sanitary facilities to safeguard the health of the occupants of multiple dwellings, but it has made no similar provisions for single residences. The Legislature has recognized that there is exploitation of tenants by the failure, of certain landlords to make repairs and provide necessary services. Nevertheless, it has not enacted a statute that changed the long standing legal relationship between the landlord and tenant as to single dwellings, except in a few isolated instances where a general statute has been passed that is applicable to all housing accommodations. By the Laws of 1962, chapter 997 (Social Services Law, § 143-b), the Spiegel Law was enacted whereby a public official may withhold the payment of rent on behalf of a welfare tenant where there exists a violation in the building in which the welfare recipient resides. It was based upon these legislative findings: ‘ ‘ The legislature hereby finds and declares that certain evils and abuses exist which have caused many tenants, who are welfare recipients, to suffer untold hardships, deprivation of services and deterioration of housing facilities because certain landlords have been exploiting such tenants by failing to make necessary repairs and by neglecting to afford necessary services in violation of the laws of the state.”