Ms. Massey,
It’s good to know that you have completed your “Housing 101” training and that you are well educated in the subject of subsidize housing programs.( I’m assuming that you yourself have completed this course.)
As the chair of the board of commissioners of the Galveston Housing Authority who is fighting vigorously for each and every one of these programs as well as Mayor Jaworski, please explain to me the following.
1. Is the Galveston Housing Authority as well as the board violating the “Fair Housing Act”? (By building on the same foot prints and in areas of very high poverty)
2. Why is the Galveston Housing Authority, Mayor Jaworski and you (Betty Massey) chair of the board of commissioners of the Galveston Housing Authority supporting the “West Galveston Island Property Owners’ Association” from building any type of subsidizing in the west end?
From the Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Housing Authority of the City of Galveston, Texas Island Community Center – Community Room 4700 Broadway, Galveston, TX 77551 December 20, 2010 at 5:00 P.M.
Mayor Jaworski “Betty Massey did a great job addressing their concerns, speaking on behalf of GHA. She did an awesome job setting forth the basic three big things that are currently happening: Purpose-Built Communities; the Move to Work application; and the preferences. She addressed the public housing on the far west end issue and stated that even if the census tract data came back indicating that this was the ideal location for public housing, other reasons would disqualify the area. Reasons such as it is not behind the seawall, there is no school in the area, no grocery store, no public transportation and no urban grid. These are all disqualifying factors.”
How much power does the WGIPOA have in keeping subsidized housing out of these areas with Mayor Jaworski, Galveston Housing Authority, you the GHA chair and city council? What does the “Fair Housing Act” and “HUD regulation” SAY?
At the Bay Walk Apartment Complex located at 7200 Heards Lane 192 tax credit units. These units were funded by federal disaster recovery money, adjacent to Bay Walk Apartment another 256 unit are being restored, 100% tax credit units to be completed in June 2012 funded by the following: 1. $26.5 million in disaster recovery money ,2. $16.5 million in disaster housing recovery tax credits 3. $10 million in Community Development Block Grant funding plus 12 more scatter housing units.
I am a candidate for District 5 and I do not support any of these programs as it stand now.
As the newly elected representative I will vigorously fight for my constituent in my district
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