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Housing Authority Wages Battle over Cleanliness in Sanford, Fla.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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August 13, 2001
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Gary Taylor, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 13--SANFORD, Fla.--Butler Daniel knows all about keeping a tidy home.
Decades ago, when his mother demanded that he keep his room neat, the consequences were quite simple. "I used to get a lot of whippings about that," Daniel recalled.
Daniel and several hundred other residents living in the six complexes run by the Sanford Housing Authority are about to risk more than a mother's wrath if they don't keep their apartments clean.
Violations of housekeeping rules ranging from keeping the toilet bowl clean to discarding spoiled food from refrigerators could lead to an ...
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Sanford, Fla., Housing Authority to Compile Short List of Possible...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
December 6, 2001 ;
734 words
......Taylor, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight...the Sanford Housing Authority was the subject...leaving the Housing Authority. Sanford...director at the housing authority in East St...Sarasota Housing Authority. But he left...director of the housing ...
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Federal overseer ends Sanford, Fla., housing authority stint.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
November 5, 2004 ;
444 words
......Gary Taylor, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder...Nov. 5--A federal housing official who spent...troubled Sanford Housing Authority is going home. A...To see more of The Orlando Sentinel -- including its...com. (c) 2004, The Orlando Sentinel. Distributed by ...
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Sanford, Fla., Housing Authority Members Are Lax in Filing Financial...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
April 29, 2003 ;
787 words
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Federal cuts might cause housing authority layoffs.
Daily News (Bowling Green, KY);
June 22, 2006 ;
618 words
......budget cuts may cost the Housing Authority of Bowling Green about...of its regular funding, housing authority Executive Director Abraham...from the capital fund the housing authority gets from the U.S. Department...
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Audit finds Housing Authority mistakes
Yakima Herald-Republic;
December 30, 1997 ;
DAVID WASSON Of the Herald-Republic;
495 words
...The Yakima Housing Authority is tightening its verification...Auditors contend it is the housing authority's responsibility to independently...determining eligibility. Neither the housing authority's executive director, Alice...
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Sanford Housing Authority returned to city.
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);
January 22, 2006 ;
544 words
......running the troubled Sanford Housing Authority for more than two years...control to the city, said Orlando Cabrera, assistant director of Public and Indian Housing for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...to a successful public housing authority. HUD placed ...
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Yakama Nation Housing Authority -- Auditors have advice, but no penalties
Yakima Herald-Republic;
August 8, 1998 ;
BILL HEISEL JR. Of the Herald-Republic;
787 words
......recent federal review of the Yakama Nation Housing Authority found management missteps that led to...gives advice but does not penalize the housing authority. And the housing authority's critics say the report only scratches...
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Lawmaker Urges Federal Takeover over Housing Authority in Sanford, Fla.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
June 14, 2003 ;
650 words
...By Robert Perez, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune...of Sanford's distressed housing authority. U.S. Rep. John Mica asked...series of articles in the Orlando Sentinel exposing the extent of...officials told Sanford Housing Authority board members that ...
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DuPage, Ill., Housing Authority Nixes Plans for Seniors' Homes in Wheaton.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);
January 24, 2002 ;
566 words
......William Grady Jan. 24--The DuPage Housing Authority has scrapped a plan to build affordable...in downtown Wheaton. Instead, the housing authority has reached a tentative agreement...downtown redevelopment project. The housing authority paid $525,000 at a real-estate auction...
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HUD Halts Tribal Housing Authority Funds -- Federal agency says financial...
Yakima Herald-Republic;
November 25, 1998 ;
BILL HEISEL JR. YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC;
787 words
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Investigators Issue Scathing Assessment of Sanford, Fla., Housing...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
April 4, 2001 ;
663 words
...The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business...necessary to designate the local housing authority a troubled agency -- their term...item at a time. To see more of The Orlando Sentinel, or to subscribe to the newspaper...
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Sanford, Fla., Housing Authority Won't Discuss Questionable Business...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
February 15, 2001 ;
402 words
...The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight...the Sanford Housing Authority Board meets...poring over the housing authority's files since...speak to the Orlando Sentinel only about items...renters. The housing authority is subsidizing...more of The Orlando ...
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Audit Slaps at Philadelphia Housing Authority for 'Unfair' Hirings.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);
March 29, 2002 ;
787 words
......Dilanian Mar. 29--The Philadelphia Housing Authority paid a Detroit human-resources consultant...practices by Carl R. Greene, the Housing Authority's executive director. Although the...recommends that the department require the Housing Authority's board to consider disciplinary...
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City helps bail out housing authority; Provides temporary cure by agreeing...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;
March 14, 2003 ;
Karen Eschbacher; KAREN ESCHBACHER;
558 words
......threatened to cripple the Quincy Housing Authority. Housing officials had charged that...least for now. The result for the housing authority is a 44 percent savings, or $403...have to shut down some buildings," housing authority Chairman James McDonald said. "We...
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KENTUCKY ATTORNEY GENERAL ISSUES OPEN RECORDS DECISION REGARDING THOMAS E....
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
March 30, 2007 ;
787 words
......decision: Summary: Louisville-Metro Housing Authority could properly require that open...the requested records during the Housing Authority's regular office hours once the agency...appeal is whether Louisville-Metro Housing Authority (Housing Authority) violated the...
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