NCSHA is the principal advocate in Washington for both MRBs and the Housing Credit and the principal state advocate for HOME.

Connecticut Rail Commuter Council is the official state advocate for commuters and brings station problems to the attention of officials.

It served as a temporary prison for free state advocates, including Governor Charles L. Robinson, during the Bleeding Kansas issue in 1856.

From 1979 to 1984 he was a state advocate in Zambia.

The number of beds, Mr. Cassano said, had been dictated by a court order stemming from a 1990 lawsuit by the state public advocate seeking to ease crowding at the old jail.

Meanwhile, voters are resisting tax increases to keep the spending going while state advocates of the poor and sick speak of catastrophe and crisis.

With only 80 units of subsidized housing out of 6,200 dwellings, Darien is well below the 10 percent of affordable housing that the state advocates.

DPPs also have a number of prosecutors on their own staff, known as state advocates.

"New state" advocates had no fear of western states achieving a majority one day.

More than two decades ago, the state public advocate sued the town and others for exclusionary zoning and failing to provide opportunity for low-income housing, but dropped the case before trial.