West Palm Beach to Settle with HUD

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Back in May 2012,  federal authorities arrived at the West Palm Beach Housing Authority and confiscated paperwork of those individuals who had participated in the Section 8 home ownership program. The Director of the Housing Authority. Laurel Robinson, wife of the Chair of Lake Worth YES PAC,  referred all inquiries to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and said that she did not know of any instances of fraud. People were eventually fired at the Authority. Read more on that story

According to the Housing Authority, the biggest public housing community in West Palm Beach is on the brink of a $44 million redevelopment where Dunbar Village stood. It has been reported that they will take in its first tenants for nine new townhouse units this month. Everyone remembers Dunbar Village that was on all the news channels for the brutal gang rape that took place there in 2007 involving a mother and her son.

Now HUD has come back to West Palm Beach and the city has agreed to settle with HUD in its latest demand. They will repay $3  million caused by poor management of low-income housing grants.

Read today's article from the Palm Beach Post.