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PBS Investigates Miami-Dade’s Housing Agency Corruption

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Ryan Sharp
on July 30, 2007
in Affordable Housing, Barbara Gomez, House of Lies, Liberty City, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade Housing Agency, Oscar Rivero, PBS and Rene Rodriguez
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PBS has been investigating the endemic corruption and incompetence that has plagued the Miami-Dade Housing Agency. Now you can watch the new online video, “Money for Nothing”, a three-part series reporting the recent history and actions of the Agency, detailing how everything went wrong. I highly recommend watching these videos.

The funny (and sad) thing is, this doesn’t even mention the recent scandals regarding the unbuilt Biotech facility in Liberty City or the corruption at the City of Miami Community Development Department.

Take the Money and RUN!!!

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Gabriel Lopez-Bernal
on July 24, 2006
in Affordable Housing, Carlos Alvarez, Corruption, Developers, Development, Miami, Oscar Rivero, Real Estate and Urban Planning
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I present an unusual idea on behalf of the citizens of Miami-Dade County: a county-wide class action lawsuit against the developers who stole millions of dollars from all of us when promising to build low-income houses. That’s right, this crack squad more than qualifies to be today’s Maricones; they epitomize the weekly award to begin with. Sure, the developers are just a few of the bad eggs in the rotten Miami-Dade Housing Agency carton, but, they knowingly took advantage of a flawed system and left our neediest citizens out in the cold while they raked in millions either directly or through real-estate dealings.

The Miami-Dade real estate market is rough, heck, we’ve paid out millions and apparently we still couldn’t afford to get a house, let alone enough to give away at a discounted rate to thousands of underprivileged citizens. We’ve given a few politically connected developers they key to accessing millions of mismanaged public dollars, which, if history serves my memory correctly is no different than in years past. Now, I could go into detail on each project and their respective developer, but, I’ll leave the snooping around up to your own personal Google searches and Miami-Dade Property Record browsing. I did my own research and the results weren’t too pleasant, let alone information we would want to publicize about how inept the housing agency controllers really are.

It becomes apparent however, that we have a collective problem when it comes to managing money in this county. The agency has barely been able to build any houses to begin with, yet, they recently completed work on their new $5 Million office headquarters. Apparently they plan on doing some serious work to assist some of the 41,000 families currently lined up to receive some sort of financial aide for housing costs.

It’s because of situations such as this, that Miami fails to gain the positive recognition it could garner. It sickens me to see that so many people are willing and able to essentially steal from tax money earmarked for struggling families. Last time I checked, we didn’t need to create a welfare fund for developers, they should be doing just fine…

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Where’s the building and what happened to the five million?

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Gabriel Lopez-Bernal
on July 24, 2006
in Carlos Alvarez, Corruption, Housing, Katy Sorenson, Miami and Oscar Rivero
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A press conference was held this afternoon by Mayor Carlos Alvarez and Commissioner Katy Sorenson, seemingly the only two politicians in Miami-Dade County with good intentions and morals. The subject of the conference: The competence incompetence of the Miami-Dade Housing Agency (didn’t see that one coming.) In any case, the Mayor is calling for appropriate measures be taken to reprimand the responsible parties. I still say we sue em’ to get our money back, on top of the disciplinary action the mayor recommends.

“…I want our money back, I want our land back…If we have to go to court, I want it back…”
-Mayor Carlos Alvarez

I’m glad to see that the mayor agrees…

“Problems in the agency started at the top…”
-Mayor Carlos Alvarez

Precisely what I’ve said before. Many of the elected officials are writing the book in corruption. They usually assign positions to wholly unqualified gophers that continually spread their greedy values and corrupt mentality. Dade citizens need to unite to bring back qualified people to these jobs; people who will make competent decisions for the good of our community. Just take a look at the dedication of many elected officials which often have second jobs as “consultants” to local companies, many of which are in fields where they have absolutely no professional or educational experience, all this while they also serve the needs of the public in job that typically pays them less than their consulting “fee…” What a load, how can we continue to allow this?

“We Put Band-Aids where we need to amputate…”
-Carlos Alvarez

We need to put an end to the corruption. It is simply unacceptable and despicable. We need to cleanse our local government of the scum which plagues it and renders it virtually useless. Re-election should hardly be an option for some of these people as we reveal the truth behind many of their policies and deceptive actions… Here are some more notable quotes from Mayor Carlos Alvarez…
“We keep doing business with the same people over and over again, there are only so many times you can get hit over the head with a baseball bat…”

“This stinks…”

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