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Article: Troubled Berkeley Housing Authority to start new waiting list
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- September 19, 2007
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After tossing out a public housing waiting list with 5,000 names,
the Berkeley Housing Authority will make applications available for
a new list starting Friday.
The applications are for 61 three- and-four-bedroom units owned
by the authority with rents subsidized by the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
Despite protests from people who had been on the previous list
for as long as eight years, the Housing Authority board of directors
voted in August to start a new list after it found the previous one
was so badly kept that staff could not determine who is eligible for
housing assistance and who is not.
Applications will be available at eight locations starting
Friday. The ...