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BGR President: "Inaccurate" to Say too Much Affordable Housing

by The Editors November 13, 2009November 7, 2019

In an interview with The Lens this afternoon, Janet Howard, president of the Bureau of Governmental Research stated that it would be “inaccurate” for someone to use their report The House That Uncle Sam Built: The Continued Expansion of Subsidized Housing in New Orleans to say there was too much subsidized housing. Even with testimony […]

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