After a scathing federal report highlighting the failures of the D.C. Housing Authority, the city’s leaders proposed dissolving the agency’s Board of Commissioners and creating a new “Stabilization and Reform Board.”
The change was proposed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.
“DCHA needs an agile board, comprised of experts who understand these issues deeply, so that we can deliver the housing DCHA residents deserve and that our community deserves,” Ms. Bowser explained when announcing the plan.
The Housing Authority was excoriated in a recent federal Department of Housing and Urban Development report for “failure to provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing opportunities for residents in violation of program requirements.