“(a) The legislature finds that the effective enforcement of state and local laws for the establishment and maintenance of proper housing standards is essential to the health, safety, welfare and reasonable comfort of the citizens of the state. The legislature further finds that * * * no single court has been able to deal consistently with all of the factual and legal problems presented by the continuing existence of housing violations in any one building. * * * The legislature further finds that the establishment of adequate judicial procedures and machinery [to] the effective enforcement of building standards in the city of New York is a necessity in the public interest.
“(b) The legislature finds that the effective enforcement of proper housing standards in the city of New *476York will be greatly advanced by the creation of a housing part of the civil court of the city of New York with jurisdiction of sufficient scope (i) to consolidate all actions related to effective building maintenance and operation, (ii) to recommend or employ any and all [other] remedies, programs, procedures and sanctions authorized by federal, state or local laws <or the enforcement of housing standards, regardless of the relief originally sought by the plaintiff, if it believes that such other or additional remedies, programs, procedures or sanctions will be more effective to accomplish and protect and promote the public interest and compliance”.