Others weren't eligible for apartments controlled by the New York City Housing Authority, he said.
Groups can request and get more than one piano, as the New York City Housing Authority's youth chorus had done.
In 2005, the city stopped giving homeless people leaving shelters preference for public-housing options such as New York City Housing Authority apartments or Section 8 vouchers.
Jeffrey Gotel , a 34-year-old statistician and New York City Housing Authority refugee, says he lost money for months worrying about bucking the latest economic news.
It sent the message that people should go to homeless shelters to move to the front of the New York City Housing Authority's long wait-lists, Mr. Diamond said.
He had campaigned actively, participating in candidate forums, doing interviews on local television and radio and joining in calls for the city Housing Authority chairman's resignation and opposition to the way public school student data is being used in a state database.
That scenario could play out across Manhattan under an unprecedented proposal by the city housing authority to lease out public housing land and allow developers to build market-rate apartment buildings intended for much wealthier residents on areas currently occupied by basketball courts, parking lots and outdoor plazas.
The problems of the city's housing authority and public schools disproportionately affect African-Americans.
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In the past two weeks, Mr. Rosen and the city's housing authority have opened negotiations with Texas' General Land Office, a state agency that is working on behalf of HUD and housing advocates to seek a compromise.
The Richmond Housing Authority imposed a city ban on all firearms in 1990 that was upheld by the Virginia Supreme Court.
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That's what happened to a little more than half a million dollars for the public housing authority in North Platte, Nebraska, a city about halfway between Denver and Omaha.
Last year, a lack of funds prompted city officials to cancel the program, which was subsidized in 2010 by the Bridgeport Housing Authority.
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