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Inequality

Posted inSubsidized Squalor

New appliances disappearing from troubled California housing agency

by Amy Julia Harris and Corey G. Johnson December 8, 2014April 23, 2015

More than a quarter of the new appliances in the housing authority’s inventory – 167 of the 598 stoves and refrigerators purchased for residents – have vanished in the last eight years.

Posted inSubsidized Squalor

Civil grand jury to probe Richmond’s abysmal public housing conditions

by Amy Julia Harris October 17, 2014November 29, 2018

A San Francisco Bay Area civil grand jury is investigating the Richmond Housing Authority after a CIR series exposed systemic mismanagement and negligence by the agency.

Posted inSubsidized Squalor

Public housing official paid contractor for work husband did

by Amy Julia Harris and Corey G. Johnson July 25, 2014April 23, 2015

The maintenance manager for California’s Richmond Housing Authority has given at least $78,000 in emergency work to Strongbuilt Construction. But her husband says he performed the repairs – and the troubled agency’s top brass knew about it.

Posted inSubsidized Squalor

Journey through Hacienda

by Aaron Williams and Amy Julia Harris June 11, 2014January 12, 2016
Posted inSubsidized Squalor

Public housing workers reap thousands of dollars from dubious overtime

by Amy Julia Harris May 8, 2014April 23, 2015

Over the past four years, two maintenance workers at the troubled Richmond Housing Authority in California double-billed for the same job, charged overtime during normal work hours and regularly invoked a union clause to get paid triple for hours worked, records show.

Posted inSubsidized Squalor

Swift evacuation won’t happen at Richmond, Calif., public housing site

by Amy Julia Harris April 1, 2014November 29, 2018

It likely will be more than three months before residents of the Hacienda complex could begin being removed as the City Council looks to the federal government for nearly $700,000 in relocation money.

Posted inSubsidized Squalor

Impact update: What’s happened in Subsidized Squalor’s wake

by Andy Donohue March 27, 2014July 1, 2015

The day after the first story about public housing in Richmond, Calif., ran, residents crowded into City Council meetings to tell their stories of humiliation and infestation, and they haven’t stopped since.

Posted inSubsidized Squalor

Worst public housing complex in Richmond, Calif., to be emptied

by Amy Julia Harris March 13, 2014January 28, 2015

The City Council votes in favor of giving residents of the Hacienda complex vouchers to move to private housing.

Posted inSubsidized Squalor

Top housing official’s nephew doubled salary through overtime, perks

by Amy Julia Harris March 11, 2014November 29, 2018

An in-house maintenance worker and relative of the No. 2 official at California’s Richmond Housing Authority made more than $29,000 in overtime and other pay last year, according to payroll records. That’s more overtime and additional pay than any other employee earned at the housing authority.

Posted inSubsidized Squalor

Frustrated public housing residents give lawmakers an earful at meeting

by Amy Julia Harris March 5, 2014November 29, 2018

At a packed meeting, dozens of tenants in Richmond, Calif., unleashed years of pent-up frustration over the squalid conditions and disrespect they’ve endured from housing authority staff.

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