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Julio Barreto
In an interview published in the September-October issue of the Journal of Housing and Community Development, Presidential candidate Barack Obama expressed support for reinstating the one-for-one replacement requirement. The Journal is a bi-monthly magazine published by the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO).Obama was the only candidate to respond to questions sent to the offices of each of the presidential candidates in January. Prior to 1996, federal housing law provided that every public housing unit that was demolished had to be replaced on a one-for-one basis with another public housing or equivalent unit. In 1996 this requirement was suspended and later repealed by Congress.In addition to expressing his support for the one-for-one replacement requirement,...
