Governor Patrick Announces Legislation to Improve Oversight, Efficiency of Local Housing Authorities - January 10, 2013

Legislation continues reforms the Administration has made to strengthen the Commonwealth’s Public Housing System and to promote regionalization

BOSTON – Thursday, January 10, 2013 - Governor Deval Patrick today filed legislation that will professionalize, modernize and regionalize the operations and financial management of the Commonwealth’s housing authorities.  The proposals will change the governance structure of the housing authority system in order to protect the safety net that public housing provides for the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable families, seniors and persons with disabilities and builds on the Administration’s unprecedented commitment to public housing.

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