New Report Reveals Shocking Incompetence at D.C. Public Housing Authority

By artappraiser on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 4:12pm |

If you have a surplus of a below-market-rate product, you know something has gone very wrong. Some 20 percent of D.C. public housing units are vacant, either b/c they're uninhabitable or b/c DCHA literally can't match new applicants to empty units https://t.co/4Ir67RjDzQ
— Christian Britschgi (@christianbrits) October 10, 2022

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https://reason.com/2022/10/10/new-report-reveals-uninhabitable-units-shocking-incompetence-at-d-c-public-housing-authority/

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....Public housing authorities across the country struggle with deteriorating unit quality and high operating expenses. The New York City Housing Authority periodically tops the Worst Landlord Watchlist put out by the city's Public Advocate. The Navajo Housing Authority—which manages 8,500 units of housing across the Navajo Nation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah—so badly managed new housing projects that it had to return $26 million to the federal government in 2017.

But D.C. appears to be in a league of its own. The HUD report paints a picture of an organization that can't even perform basic administrative functions....

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 4:16pm

New Report Reveals Shocking Incompetence at D.C. Public Housing Authority

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