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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). Council-approved appointees and her chief of staff and deputy mayor for planning and economic development, John Falcicchio, who is an ex officio member. The City Council is worked up about it (" D.C. Housing Authority better ," Post ).

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Partly what got me thinking about city-county consolidation--places like Indianapolis (1970), Knoxville, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (2012), and what SF and Philadelphia did in the 1800s--was seeing mention of a Brookings Institution report about Pennsylvania c.

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

“No housing authority may construct or operate its housing projects so as to provide revenues for other activities of the city [or, by extension, developers or other entities].” 153A-149, unless the same is first submitted to a vote of the people as therein provided.” 153A-149 when using state and local funds.