on July 26, 2017 in World News
Feds Subsidized Housing for ‘Nonexistent Tenants’
HUD issued $802,633 in fraudulent subsidies BY: Elizabeth HarringtonFollow @LizWFB The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent over $500,000 on apartments for people who “did not exist,” according to the agency’s inspector general. An audit released last month found that managers of Section 8 housing in Jefferson County, Texas, defrauded the government by stealing the identities of former tenants and falsifying incomes. The government subsidizes the rent of 99 units at Beverly Place Apartments in Groves, Texas, and paid the complex $1.8 million between January 2013 and December 2015. “Beverly Place’s owner did not administer its project-based Section 8… View Article
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