hillsborough affordable housing under investigation
The St. Pete Times editorial board is happy that the shenanigans at Hillsborough County’s affordable housing office are finally being looked at by acting U.S. attorney Robert O’Neill. They just want to know what took Pat Bean so long to get it together.
Of course, the BOCC wasn’t really pushing Bean, either. They were content to let this thing fester, and earned this from the newspaper’s board.
It took the County Commission only months last year to gut wetlands protections rules after the developers started screaming. Yet it has allowed the housing program for the poor to be mismanaged for years. So much for this board’s priorities.
We need wholesale changes at the county.
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June 10th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Five whistleblowers tried to warn the County and Federal government about the lack of monitoring procedures and oversight of problems in 2002. Did they listen to them? No. Does the problem still exist? Yes. The big question is Why? Who is benefiting from the lack of oversight? Who isn’t? The taxpayers.