Biden Administration Gives $10 Million Grant to Non-Profit Accused of Running ‘Inhumane’ Slum Housing
The Biden administration has given a multi-million-dollar grant intended to “empower tenants” to a nonprofit that’s been repeatedly accused of operating dilapidated, dangerous housing complexes in Los Angeles.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says its $10 million Tenant Education and Outreach (TEO) grant will enable tenants in HUD-subsidized housing “to more effectively engage with property managers and owners to help sustain safe, decent, and affordable housing.”
On Thursday, HUD announced that $10 million will be jointly awarded to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and the Massachusetts Alliance of HUD Tenants.
Over the next two years, these two groups will distribute this money to 30 tenant advocacy organizations to help them in their own efforts to “work productively with property management, hold management accountable for property conditions, improve management and oversight of these multifamily properties, and advocate to preserve affordability.”
AHF, originally a healthcare nonprofit that operates pharmacies for AIDS patients, has been taking an increasingly active role in housing—and courting immense amounts of controversy along the way.
Beginning in 2017, it started buying up residential hotels in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, with the goal of rehabilitating them and renting them out at low, unsubsidized rates.
Michael Weinstein, the head of the foundation, argued this was a cheaper, faster way of housing people than building new affordable housing units.
But since acquiring those residential hotels, AHF has been the subject of numerous lawsuits from tenants, and investigations from media outlets, over living conditions on its properties.
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