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Inspiring confidence in an important municipal agency, one charged with community improvement but beset by questions about its operations, isn’t an impossible challenge. One simple way to do so is for officials to be transparent about flaws, up front about potential reform and open in how they communicate with the public.

The Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, remarkably, managed to go 0-for-3 by those measures when it fired the authority’s executive director in a secret vote in November. City residents deserve a thorough explanation for a decision that threatens to further erode trust in that embattled agency.

As the largest redevelopment and housing authority in Virginia, the NRHA has a tremendous amount o

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