Boston Globe, Governor Patrick plans ambitious overhaul of state’s troubled public housing:

Governor Deval Patrick on Thursday will propose eliminating the state’s troubled patchwork of 240 public housing authorities and replacing them with six regional agencies in an effort to eliminate waste and corruption from the housing program for low-income and elderly people, state officials say.

Points to Gov. Patrick for this ‘good government’ initiative.  It is long overdue – “long” as in “decades”.  The Globe article details some of the more egregious local mismanagement and corruption cases.