And you want to be my Housing Authority commissioner?
I am completely digging on the story in this morning’s Tribune about Karen Peoples, the Tampa Housing Authority board member who can’t seem to follow the rules of her own agency. This from John Allman’s tale:
Tampa Housing Authority commissioner Karen Peoples responded angrily this morning to a Tampa Tribune report that she is being evicted for violating federal housing guidelines.
“Whoever was responsible for this article, may God be with you when the time comes,” Peoples said near the end of the authority’s monthly board meeting. “This was not necessary.”
The authority this week began eviction proceedings against Peoples, who has been in violation since November 2007 of federal Department of Housing and Urban Development guidelines that dictate the apartment size a resident can occupy.
Peoples is a single woman living in a four-bedroom apartment at C. Blythe Andrews, a north Tampa housing property. She has refused three offers to move to a one-bedroom apartment since January. The authority has more than 200 people waiting for a four-bedroom apartment at her complex, and authority President Jerome Ryans said Peoples has run out of chances.
Reading the story, however, raises an even more important question than who the hell appointed this broad to the board and when are they going to kick her off of it: namely, why doesn’t tbo.com provide ANY hyperlinks in its news stories, even to its own coverage? Why do I have to take 20 minutes searching through the rest of the site to find the initial story that Peoples was bitching about??
