Villaraigosa’s Failure To Manage Housing Agencies, And My Alternative
By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, Walter Moore For Mayor.com
According to the L.A. Times, the City Controller has concluded that no one is coordinating the efforts of the City’s various housing departments.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
According to the article, “the Housing Department did not work closely enough with the city Housing Authority, which administers housing projects; the Community Redevelopment Agency; or the homeless services authority. The city's antiquated computer systems can't even communicate with one another, she added.” (To read the audit itself, click here.)
Nor are these minor programs with insignificant budgets. On the contrary, the Housing Department alone, according to an article in the Daily News, has 600 employees and an annual budget of $160 million, and oversees a $100 million “affordable housing trust fund.”
Coordinating the City’s many different departments and programs is the Mayor’s job. Villaraigosa is not doing that job, and is instead wasting his time, and your money, attending endless photo-ops and traveling out of town while the city goes down the drain.
If I’m elected, I will show up for work every day and do the job -- just like you and everyone else who lives in the real world. I’ll meet regularly with department heads to ensure we’re all working together. My platform, moreover, calls for giving housing aid to the truly needy -- the elderly and disabled -- rather than giving your money to developers to make our city even more dense than it is already.
If that’s what you want in a Mayor, please contribute to my campaign right now by clicking here. If you get me the $150,000 “admission ticket” to the televised mayoral debates, we can fix L.A.
