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Must Politics Control Housing?
Abrams, Charles | March 15, 1947 issue

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The New York City Housing Authority was the first to function in the country, and the laws of forty states now follow its legislative formula. Eight hundred housing authorities operate under that formula today. It was fashioned on the principle that a local political body vested with the power of landlord over more than a third of a city's people should be above suspicion. Public policy from the beginning has sought to erect buffers against political interference with housing by the local administration, although admitting that authority members must be sufficiently responsible to the city to enable the mayor to remove them for incompetence.

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HOUSING authorities; HOUSING policy; HOUSING; HOUSING authorities -- Law & legislation; PUBLIC housing -- Law & legislation; CITY planning
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