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Thomas Davis: Affordable housing units get rehabilitation

Low-income housing shouldn't force people to live in squalor. Yet the dwindling supply of low-income housing in the United States has been deteriorating because...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

June 9, 2017 11:03 am

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Thomas Davis, director, Office of Recapitalization, HUD

Low-income housing shouldn't force people to live in squalor. Yet the dwindling supply of low-income housing in the United States has been deteriorating because of aging and neglect. Thomas Davis, director of the Office of Recapitalization at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has marshaled billions in private money to rehab tens of thousands of affordable housing units. And now he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program.