The Buffalo Chronicle
Housing Authority
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Mascia still working for residents as public hearing approaches
Last Thursday a well respected leader and organizer in the Latino community, Alberto Cappas, reached out to city housing commissioner Joe Mascia. Cappas is helping minority youth find jobs and had two resumes…
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Candelario seen with housing executive
Modesto Candelario is the Assistant Director of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority and has been seen socializing after-hours with Kim Stevens, the executive who runs Bridges Development. They were having dinner and drinks…
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Mascia recruits top civil rights attorney in fight with BMHA
Commissioner Joe Mascia has retained the Buffalo Niagara region’s top civil rights attorney to fight the Mayor’s politically motivated charges against him. The Mayor and his appointees to BHMA’s board of commissioners made…
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What is Byron doing with the Housing Authority?
Sweeping layoffs at the badly mismanaged Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority is leaving residents aghast. Dozens of key staffers are being dismissed in the face of a bleak fiscal outlook that stems from…
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Control board rejects BMHA financial plan, renewing threat of federal receivership
The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority’s 2016-2019 Financial Plan has been rejected by the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority. The Financial Plan had been architected by Hal Payne, the Buffalo State College administrator who…
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Justice O’Donnell is dragging his feet on BMHA ruling
Mayor Byron Brown’s five appointments to the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority’s board of commissioners were made illegally, alleges the tenant elected Housing Commissioner Joe Mascia. In accordance with the articles of incorporation…
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Higgins steps in to demand answers from Sanders-Garrett on BMHA mismanagement
Congressman Brian Higgins, our region’s emissary to the federal government for more than a decade, has stepped into the crisis situation at the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority. He is demanding answers from…
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Residents are feeling the the brunt of BMHA mismanagement
A resident at Sedita Towers, a BMHA senior housing property on Summer Street, has been complaining to that property’s manager and maintenance supervisor that lights in the parking lot have been off…
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Deputy director Candelario’s qualifications, conflicts of interest questioned at BMHA
A mysterious letter seemingly written by an employee inside BMHA appeared in Housing Commissioner Joe Mascia’s mailbox earlier this week. The letter questions the education credentials of the agency’s Assistant Executive Director, Modesto…
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BMHA financial mismanagement gets even worse for residents
The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority’s financial mismanagement has become so bad, that employees of the agency have been told to refrain from suggesting that stoves and refrigerators would be provided to tenants…
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Hal Payne gets his BMHA turnaround plan approved without full Board review
It was Commissioner Hal Payne who introduced the resolution approving a turnaround plan that the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has demanded within 90 days of March 13, or risk…
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Mascia says no to a six month phase out of BMHA’s Executive Director
Housing Commissioner Joe Mascia is opposed to BMHA Chairman Michael Seaman’s alleged effort to allow the agency’s Executive Director, Dawn Sanders-Garrett, phase out of her role over several months. In an email…
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Deplorable conditions at Perry Projects illustrate BMHA mismanagement
The Commodore Perry Projects are a pre-War depression-era public housing development in Buffalo’s Old First Ward. The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks. The agency was…
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HUD threatens federal receivership of Housing Authority within 90 days
Lisa M. Pugliese, the director of the Buffalo field office of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, is threatening a federal receivership of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority if…
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On BMHA mismanagement, Mayor Brown can’t claim ignorance
The mismanagement of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority is staggering, but it comes as no surprise to tenants and neighbors — who have had to live with the horrid quality of life impacts…
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Despite Mascia’s warnings, Mayor Brown continues to ignore BMHA dysfunction
For months, Housing Commissioner Joe Mascia has been warning Mayor Byron Brown about mismanagement at the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority — which exposes the agency to federal receivership by the Department of Housing and…
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Inspector General slams BMHA’s suspect contracting practices
In response to a complaint about the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority’s legal expenses and contracting processes, the New York Inspector General’s Office has issued an audit report that slam’s the agency’s management…
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Mascia blasts BMHA Chairman for behavior at Feb meeting
Housing Commissioner Joe Masica has been targeted for political retribution by the Board members of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority ever since he began asking questions about a suspect asbestos removal contract…
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Mascia targeted for retribution after raising questions about asbestos contract
The governing board and staff of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA) has engaged in a deliberately orchestrated campaign of retribution against Housing Commissioner Joe Mascia, he has alleged. In February of…
