51. In addition, the department took control of troubled housing authorities in Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, and San Francisco. 52. In August, housing authority police officers had been forced to pry the gun from his hands when they arrested him. 53. In addition, the agency took control of troubled housing authorities in New Orleans, Chicago, San Francisco and Detroit. 54. In March he died in his small housing authority apartment from complications of alcoholism. 55. In the agreement, the housing authority acknowledged that it had updated its waiting lists by purging the names of those who failed to respond to letters in English. 56. It is the largest federal takeover ever of a housing authority and could be the most difficult. 57. It was a pet project of former housing authority chairman Vince Lane. 58. It was time, they argued, to grant local housing authorities the discretion to remedy deep-seated problems of violence and neglect in public housing. 59. Jackson said the housing authority had taken steps to alleviate the first two concerns. 60. Later this summer the Ozunas will move into their new home, a three-bedroom ranch house they bought from the housing authority. |