More corruption in affordable housing practices in the city.

[sheclown]

Brown skirted protocol in Eureka Gardens deal
Then-Mayor Alvin Brown approved property purchase outside usual channels



UNCUT: Interview with JHFA financial adviser
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

The board that approves bonds that finance affordable housing in Jacksonville was bypassed in the deal that green-lighted Global Ministries Foundation's purchase of its six properties in Jacksonville, including the troubled Eureka Gardens complex.

Hendrickson has worked with JHFA for eight years and has been in public housing since 1976.

He said in his eight years' experience in Jacksonville, he's never seen a deal like the one approved for GMF, which is owned by the Rev. Richard Hamlet.

The tenants of Eureka Gardens, who brought attention two months ago to their deplorable living conditions, have sent a letter to the U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development in Washington asking that Hamlet be fined. The letter says that the tenants "believe that practices in place at our complex may involve abuse and waste of HUD resources" but ask that the property be repaired, not condemned.

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[johncb]

" Surprise,surprise,surprise " (said in a Gomer Pyle voice ).