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be limited in the precise way that was contemplated by the
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United States Housing Act of 1949.
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This is crazy. In the Baltimore City Council,
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you will have tremendous debates as to whether or not the
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City Council will in fact allow public housing projects
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for the neediest citizens of the State operated by a
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public corporation to receive the benefit of partial tax
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exemption, whereas automatically the result of the Federal
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Government, through another title of the same act, dealing
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with certain other corporations for the purposes of receiving
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direct financing for moderate income people, these people
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will automatically get complete tax exemption.
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MR. BOND: Excuse me. 1 represented the United
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Church of Christ, and Joe Alien got a magnificent deal out
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of that. He amended the bill and everything else.
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MR. HOFFMAN: Well, there have now been some
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voluntary agreements here, but the point that I make is the
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this is an accidental result — I might say that the
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agreement that is involved is one that has never come to
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the local government for its consideration. It is one that
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has resulted from the enactment by the General Assembly of
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