Graham and Council have quite a bit to do with public housing. The city often provides “incentives” to private developers to build subsidized housing even if the developers are getting low income housing tax credits throug the feds. Council also provides funding for “New Communities” which is our local version of a federal program HOPE VI. This money is meant to redevelop BArry Farm, Park Morton, and two other huge, problematic public housing projects. for those of you who pay market rate for housing, your recordation tax is used to fund the housing production trust fund, which is a local pot of money that is for “gap financing” on low income housing that the city builds. You better believe Graham and council have quite a bit to do with low income housing. Further more, one to one replacement is also a failure in most mixed income developments. How is that deconcentrating to keep the same 300 units of low income units on the same lot…even if you do throw in another 150 units of market rate? If the City really cared about deconcentration they would start relocating some of these folks to Ward 3. Of course Ward 3 would complain that their schools are already over capacity (which is true) and only agree to senior housing…which is code for “OLD poor people aren’t as scary”–