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Julio Barreto
Renee Lewis Glover, President and CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority, is one of five inductees to Affordable Housing Magazine’s Hall of Fame. Glover is credited with changing the face of public housing through the agency’s willingness to demolished large tracts pf public housing and replacing it with mixed-income developments.While receiving her fair share of criticism from public housing advocates, she has transformed public housing in Atlanta and serves as a model for other housing authorities nationally which have replicated her success in communities large and small.Joining Glover in the Hall of Fame are Sister Lillian Murphy, CEO of Mercy Housing; John McEvoy, former executive director of the National Council of State Housing Agencies; and posthumously George Knight, former director...
