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...Castriotta, whom tenant groups have accused of shady and corrupt practices in CHA matters, announced August 26 that she would leave the housing authority because of poor health. Speaking to reporters from her bed in Cambridge City Hospital, Castriotta said she had suffered two heart seizures and had been advised by her doctor to leave the CHA before her five-year term expires in October...
...hold of Castriotta and her friends on CHA was severely diminished this summer with the appointment July 3 of Suffolk law professor Gerald J. Clark, an avowed housing reformer, by City Manager James L. Sullivan...
...Although Castriotta indeed has health problems (she is now at Mass General), many tenant groups here have speculated that a problem of another nature forced her to opt for resignation. As the summer progressed, Castriotta found her iron grip on CHA operations slipping, in large part stemming from the July appointment of a pro-tenant commissioner to the five-member CHA board and the resignation of her ally Charles A. Ferraro, CHA executive secretary. His day-to-day running of housing authority activities in the last year led to charges by a State Community Affairs official that...
Both Ferraro and CHA chairman Castriotta were perceived by Cambridge tenants as obstacles to housing reform and as public officials who denied tenants the right to participate in policy-making...
Clark replaced John Clinton, a Castriotta friend and father of independent City Councilor Daniel Clinton. The city council confirmed Clark's appointment in a July 6 special session...