Political Ambitions versus the Public Good

Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Enhancing the Governing Body’s Effectiveness: Political Ambitions versus the Public Good portrays a situation where a mayor is forced to investigate a landlord’s claim that wholesale eviction of his tenants was required by a utility company to upgrade an inadequate heating system in a housing complex. This e-book highlights the tensions that arise when a community experiences rising living costs and competing demands for economic development.