U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan is in New Orleans today to christen the first phase of the redeveloped Lafitte public housing complex in the city’s 6th Ward.  Only 134 of the Lafitte’s 900 planned apartments are completed, largely because of problems securing investors and a delay in extending a key tax credit deadline.

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