The Buffalo Chronicle
Dawn Sanders-Garrett
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Candelario on the outs at BMHA as ‘document management’ contract raises eyebrows
A source inside the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority is telling The Chronicle that Assistant Director Modesto Candelario was called to City Hall this morning and told by Mayor Byron Brown that he must look…
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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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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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Candelario’s privatization strategy endorsed by the Common Council
At Common Council proceedings earlier this week, the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority was authorized to transfer ownership of AD Price Courts, a historically significant public housing complex that has long suffered from…
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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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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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Stunning incompetence at Housing Authority has residents concerned
The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority’s stunning level of incompetence was on display at the agency’s March Board meeting last Thursday, and it is having horrible impacts on the 31 public housing complexes…
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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…
