Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has announced Doug Guthrie will replace Mercedes Marques as the general manager of the city’s Housing Department. Guthrie served as president of Kimball Hill Urban Centers in Chicago, where he built mixed-income and mixed-use projects in challenged urban communities. Guthrie was also the inaugural president of the National Equity Fund and served as deputy executive director and COO at the Chicago Housing Authority from 1987 to 1989. L.A.’s former housing general manager, Mercedes Marquez, left earlier this year to become HUD’s assistant secretary for community planning and development. Read More…