One-strike provision is an effective tool
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Public housing is either a salvation or a cancer, depending on your point of view. But five years ago the federal government took a major step toward improving public housing by implementing the one-strike provision that removes residents when they or a member of their family living in public housing is arrested for a drug violation. That single federal policy at long last gave public housing administrators a tool to remove drug offenders from the government-funded housing complexes.