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Congressional Campaign Marred by Scandal
When federal authorities charged the finance director for Connecticut House Speaker Chris Donovan's congressional campaign with trying to hide campaign contributions, the Courant sought to uncover details of the probe and provide its readers stories that explained the significance of the arrest, peeling back the layers of a conspiracy that reached the highest levels of state government.
Tags: Federal authorities; campaign finance; state government
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Pasco County Housing Authority
WSTP-TV discovered that Pasco Housing Authority was being severely mismanaged. The residents living in the housing projects were being ignored and abused because of incompetence and willful misuse of state and federal funds. They were also being retaliated against for bringing up problems at their homes to the board. Not only was the executive director having sex at the office with people who worked for her, but she was also padding her paramour's overtime sheets.
Tags: Housing Projects
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Mr. Big Stuff
An investigation of the Housing Authority executive director in Phoenix proved he hired family members, used the agency's credit card to pay for travel and meals, and channeled federal stimulus work to developers with political connections.
Tags: Housing Authority; nepotism; politics; neophyte
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"Racial disparities in home lending"
A 2008 analysis of more than half a million home loan applications in the Dayton, Ohio, region revealed that blacks with higher incomes were denied home loans, while lower-income whites were not. The report also found that blacks were more likely to receive "high-cost loans" than whites. The real estate market denies redlining practices that were made illegal "in 1977 by the federal Community Reinvestment Act."
Tags: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act; NICAR; GIS; Community Reinvestment Advisory Group; Dean Lovelace; Dayton Human Relations Commission; Federal Housing Authority; home loans; redlining
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Section 8 Scandal
The series discovered that the person running the Section 8 housing program in New Orleans, was also living in the housing himself. This housing is intended for low income people and families, not those making "6-figure salaries". After this story, action was taken and new leadership was brought into the Section 8 program of the Housing Authority (HANO).
Tags: housing; government; Housing and Urban Development (HUD); federal; department; program; support
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"Fannie and Freddie Fire Their Own IG"
The inspector general of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, "home to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," relinquished his position after a ruling by the "Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel." The Department of Justice responded to a request from the committee that claimed their inspector general did not have the "authority" to be operating.
Tags: Fannie Mae; Freddie Mac; Federal Housing Finance Agency; inspector general; Department of Justice; Congress; IG
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Housing Authority Drinkers
The Executive Director and the Director of Maintenance at the federally funded Millville Housing Authority were caught by Fox Undercover team drinking alcohol at lunch and after work and then driving their taxpayer leased vehicles.
Tags: housing authority; employees; drinking; alcohol; driving; taxpayer; undercover; hidden camera
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Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority Investigation
"These stories detail a history of public contracting at the Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority that is at best sloppy and at worst rife with favoritism and conflicts of interest. An audit of the authority by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development confirmed the problems with contracting practices at the authority and asked for $2 million to be repaid because the money wasn't spent properly."
Tags: housing; local government; federal government; housing; local politics; FOIA; public records; government spending
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City spending of federal funds prompts audit
The author investigates a local city-run housing assistance program. Estus found that the program was issuing funds to people who did not meet federal income limits that determine eligibility for the program.
Tags: housing development; Homebuyer Assistance Program; community development block grants; city government; federal government; FOIA; Freedom of Information
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Subsidizing Failure
The Tribune analyzed inspection records of housing units rented to recipients of Section 8 housing vouchers and found widespread failure. They discovered that 6,000 Chicago landlords who receive Section 8 funds failed the majority of inspections of their properties. These violations led to thousands of evictions of tenants who were not responsible for the substandard conditions of their apartments.
Tags: Section 8; Chicago Housing Authority; Hope VI Program; federal vouchers