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2 unusual facts about Housing Authority


Boston Housing Authority

In the federal government model of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), BHA is a public housing agency.

Rafi Manoukian

In addition to his duties as a councilmember, Manoukian served as Chair of the Housing Authority and the Redevelopment Agency.


Everett Stonequist

He chaired the Saratoga Springs Housing Authority for almost 30 years and was a technical consultant and planner for the city planning board for 19 years.

Gregory Floyd

As president of Local 237, the largest local in the 1.4 million Teamsters Union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Floyd represents a varied group of 25,000 New York employees from both New York City agencies and the Housing Authority, ranging from school safety agents and taxi inspectors to x-ray technicians and city attorneys.


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Dominic J. Squatrito

He was in private practice of law in Manchester, Connecticut from 1966 to 1994, and was a counsel to the Town of Manchester Housing Authority from 1972 to 1979, and to the Connecticut State Legislature Judiciary Committee from 1974 to 1975.

Eastside, Swansea

The Swansea local authority has a housing authority covering Eastside which covers the areas of Birchgrove, Talycoppa, Trallwn, Winch Wen, Port Tennant and St Thomas.

Felix Tijerina

He became friends with many politicians, including Lewis Wesley Cutrer, Roy Hofheinz, and R.E. "Bob" Smith, and was the first Mexican American to serve on the board of the Houston Housing Authority.

Hatch Act of 1939

On May 8, 2013, Hoboken, New Jersey, Councilman Ravi Balla ended his bid to join the New Jersey General Assembly after the New Jersey Supreme Court refused to consider a challenge to Hoboken Housing Authority (HHA) Director Carmelo Garcia's candidacy to serve in the State Assembly.

Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

Additional support came from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Historic Charleston Foundation, the Historic Columbia Foundation, and the Columbia Housing Authority.

Richard Hackett

Despite this, by 1991 Hackett had become vulnerable due to changing demographics (because of continued white flight to the suburbs and an increasing black population, the city was nearly 55% African-American by 1991) as well as controversies during his second full term, including Holiday Inn's corporate headquarters leaving the city for Atlanta, serious problems with the Memphis Housing Authority and embarrassing issues involving the financing of the Pyramid Arena in downtown.

Salishan, Tacoma, Washington

In April 2001, the Tacoma Housing Authority received a $35 million HOPE VI grant to revitalize Salishan.

William Benjamin Kean

After resigning from the housing authority, he moved to Florida, where he was employed as Public Relations Director for the Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater.

Worcester State University

Raymond Mariano, better known as Ray Mariano, Class of 1973, is the current Executive Director of the Worcester Housing Authority.