HUD paid subsidies for poor tenants who did not exist – IOTW Report

HUD paid subsidies for poor tenants who did not exist

Just the News: The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just the News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s. 

This week, our prestigious award is being given to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Southwest Regional office, for doling out $5.6 million in subsidies (taxpayer money) to property owners for housing poor tenants who, it turns out, don’t exist.

In 2016 HUD’s Southwest regional office, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, suspended its project-based contract administrators’ (PBRA) management and occupancy review program. The point of the review program is to ensure that property owners receiving government contracts to house low-income tenants are providing accurate and supported information about their tenants and the conditions of their building.
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