Scott Stringer Bashes NYCHA With Latest Audit
Will Bredderman
Comptroller Scott Stringer today blasted the New York City Housing Authority for failing to comply with city and federal regulations requiring them to only contract companies that hire NYCHA residents or other low-income New Yorkers.
Auditing just 29 of the 224 contracts the agency issued between 2010 and 2012, Mr. Stringer’s office discovered that companies misrepresented their hiring of NYCHA tenants and that the city failed to demand required the paperwork from the employers or do proper inspections and check-ups. The cost to the city, according to the comptroller, was $475,000–and the lost wages to public housing residents topped $184,000.
“Because of mismanagement and lax oversight, NYCHA has denied its own residents wages and training that they deserve,” Mr. Stringer said at a press conference at the R.V. Ingersoll Houses in Brooklyn. Mr. Stringer, a Democrat, noted that federal law requires the agency to ensure that contractors hire 30 percent of their workforce from the NYCHA and low-income population on all jobs costing more than $100,000, and that city statutes obligate contractors to hire 15 percent of their employees from the same pool.
Read more at http://observer.com/2014/07/scott-stringer-bashes-nycha-with-latest-audit/#ixzz38PPD3Eht
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