21.   After that, the redevelopment will revert to the housing authority.

22.   Again, HUD officials say that housing authorities are not efficient enough in processsing the vouchers they have already been issued.

23.   Bush said local housing authorities could achieve the same goal by simply evicting tenants who traffic in illicit drugs.

24.   But Alphonso Jackson, a black man who heads the housing authority, said the neighbors had other fears as well.

25.   But his opponents insist that it is, and that housing authorities have long banned pets not because they are dangerous but because they are simply inconvenient.

26.   But Jon Gresley, executive director of the Oakland Housing Authority, disputed the notion that housing authorities were slow to spend the money.

27.   But the changes would be incremental enough that they probably would not be noticed for years because turnover in most housing authorities is low and waiting lists are long.

28.   But the only penality it has suffered so far is being barred from two other construction contracts with the housing authority.

29.   By law and tradition, housing authorities have devoted most of their space to the poorest of the poor.

30.   Cisneros gave the job of rescuing the agency to Shuldiner, who had run both the New York and the Los Angeles housing authorities.