PHA Housing left as vacant windowless wrecks for years -- but is getting Recovery Act Funding

[burgesspeanut]

Meanwhile, there are PHA tenants who earn over $100,000 a year. That's right. Not a typo. The Daily News has an article today entitled "Sweet Deal at PHA: Six Figure Salary,$654 a month Rent." Asia Coney helped bring Carl Greene from Detroit to Philly, and he rewarded her with a plump sinecure and a PHA house for life. Doesn't that violate HUD rules? Obama supporters, anyone?

[Skinnyjoeymerlino]

Why can't PHA sell these vacant properties?

[mrurbanblight]

The cronies of PHA get their way--develop anything they want and eventually leave it. There are so many PHA housing sites that need to be overhauled, renovated, cleaned out --especially of drug dealers--yet PHA wants and is planning to develop even more houses. Who oversees these projects once they're built? Oh, yeah, the local drug dealers.

[burgesspeanut]

So one side of the street is going to get new construction but the other side PHA has no plans for, and it will remain just as you see above for another indeterminate period of time. No word from PHA which houses in the neighborhood they plan to sell. They stated as a SOSNA meeting that they plan to sell 7 PHA properties, and rehab 5 properties. The lots on the other side of the street probably constitute those five properties. All of the other astounding blight will remain as it is.