Housing Authority hires new executive director, partners with city on redevelopment

4/23/12 * Cville Weekly [full story]

Six months after former director Randy Bickers quit, the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority has a new leader—and a new take on how to plan for the future.

Connie Dunn, who has spent 23 years in private property management in Central Virginia and Norfolk and who served on the CRHA’s board in 2003, started as the housing authority’s new executive director last week. As the sixth person to hold the job since 1999, Dunn is inheriting a history of troubled agency-resident relations and a future of uncertain funding, but CRHA board chair Hosea Mitchell said her hire and a new partnership with the city will put the CRHA on firmer footing going forward.