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Departing Boston Housing Authority chief on the city’s housing crisis, and where we go from here

3.7.23

From the Boston Globe:

After 25 years, isn’t it time for a change?

That’s what Kate Bennett, administrator of the Boston Housing Authority, asks herself as she prepares for the next chapter in her career. Bennett, who former mayor Martin J. Walsh tapped to lead the agency in 2020, announced Wednesday that she is stepping down after filling a variety of BHA roles since 1998.

Q&A: Minneapolis public housing chief makes his case for a cut of Minnesota’s big surplus

3.7.23

From MinnPost:

A Minnesota Senate committee will take up a proposal on Friday to grant $45 million to the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority to fix up hundreds of houses that the agency rents to some of the city’s lowest-income families.

Most of the families with children that MPHA serves live in one of these 700 “scattered site” family homes — which, as the name implies, are spread out all over Minneapolis.

Redlining in paint: In new exhibit, artist shows effects of discrimination on her Yonkers neighborhood

3.7.23

From LoHud.com:

Last summer, Shanequa Benitez borrowed her mom’s electric bike and pedaled up and down Yonkers’ notorious hills. Using her grandfather’s Vivitar 35-millimeter camera, the 34-year-old Yonkers native photographed friends on sweltering afternoons in and around Cromwell Towers, the public housing where she grew up in the Locust Hill neighborhood.

Fort Wayne Housing Authority leader recognized with statewide award

2.22.23

From The Journal Gazette:

The CEO and executive director of the Fort Wayne Housing Authority is the recipient of the Michael Carroll Community Economic Development Leadership Award, Prosperity Indiana announced Thursday.

George Guy, who leads the local housing authority, received the award that distinguishes a person who has consistently provided leadership, advocacy, support and innovation in community economic development for many years, a news release said.

Fort Wayne Housing Authority leader recognized with statewide award

2.22.23

From The Journal Gazette:

The CEO and executive director of the Fort Wayne Housing Authority is the recipient of the Michael Carroll Community Economic Development Leadership Award, Prosperity Indiana announced Thursday.

George Guy, who leads the local housing authority, received the award that distinguishes a person who has consistently provided leadership, advocacy, support and innovation in community economic development for many years, a news release said.

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