The consultant team provided by the mayor will be headed by CSG Advisors, which is on contract with the mayor’s Office of Planning and Economic Development.
On Wednesday, members of a D.C. Council committee tasked with overseeing the city’s housing authority questioned the agency’s plans to lean on turnaround consultants to fix issues identified by federal housing officials.Its members also criticized parts of the agency’s written response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, issued Tuesday,
Henderson said it is “especially shocking” that, as noted in the HUD report, 1 in 4 of the agency’s public housing units are vacant. “Something isn’t consistent here,” White said, likening it to a situation in which “I get an inspection for my home that identifies dozens of structural defects, and I say, ‘Oh, it’s fine. I knew of all these things.’ But the next day you see a dozen contractors pull up to my house.”Donald said the agency has been working to improve on its own, but a HUD deadline of March 31 has added a time crunch.
Given that the mayor’s office is providing the consultants, some council members expressed concern about whom the consultants would be accountable to for their performance.
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