THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, February 11, 1997 TAG: 9702110216
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY KATRICE FRANKLIN, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SUFFOLK LENGTH: 28 lines
The Redevelopment and Housing Authority tonight will consider eliminating its policy that requires public housing managers to live in the complexes they oversee.
Deputy director Everette Devoe said the authority wants to abandon the policy because no other area housing agency has it and because the extra apartments could be used by low-income residents who need housing.
Two Suffolk managers, at Colander-Bishop Apartments and Hoffler Apartments, would be affected.
Devoe said the managers could live in the apartments if they chose. New managers would not have to live in the public housing complexes.
In other matters, the board is expected to decide on funding for the Professional Building, which has been vacant for several years.
The housing authority voted unanimously in January to set aside $1.2 million to rehabilitate the downtown historical site. But since then, some have questioned whether renovating the building is the right project for the authority, which is in the middle of rehabilitating Orlando, a small neighborhood on the edge of downtown.
Tonight's 7:30 meeting at 530 E. Pinner St. is open to the public.
KEYWORDS: SUFFOLK REDEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING AUTHORITY