HUD and City Manager Tom Schwab

From the Email Inbox:

City Manager Tom Schwab deliberately misled the Council and the Public. Yes the 9 million from the City is not H.U.D. but the money, another 9 million so the corp says, from the Corp. for Better Housing is. That is why all their locations are section 8 and that is why the senior project here is section 8. That's what makes it section 8. All the Corps locations are section 8 because all their contributions to the projects they have done are funded on their part by the Federal Government

Grandpa Adds:

City Manager Tom Schwab's failure to see a reason to have a HUD representative explain to the City Council and the Citizens of Grand Terrace the conditions of qualifying to live in the Proposed Blue Mountain Senior villas is a continued effort on his part to preclude the citizens from full knowledge about what is being built and for whom it is being built.

City Manager Tom Schwab's Comment that no HUD money is being spent on the building of the Project, is not really cogent to the need to understand what Section 8 Housing Qualifications are. Section 8 Housing Regulations are a HUD Regulation.

He went on to say that the funds are coming from bonds, loans and Housing Agency. HUD requirement REGULATE each of those sources of Funding. REGULATIONS are perhaps a Foreign Concept to City Manager Tom Schwab, but they do exist, and HUD is the Head of the Lion that wags the tail of Section 8 Housing. 90 % of the Blue Mt. Senior Villas will be occupied by Low and Very Low Income Seniors. THIS designation is a HUD designation, not a Corporation for Better Housing Designation or Regulation, and Not a City Ordinance or Regulation.

One must ask why is he resistant to the inclusion of HUD in the sharing of information? Is it perhaps that there were process problems in the selection of the Developer, the funding or some other problem he does not want revealed to the light of day and the awareness of the public. One must ask.

One Must ASK... what has 3.2 Million Dollars of Bond (Long Term Debt to the City Redevelopment Agency) paid for? BUT, dare not ask it of the City Council, or word it not quite right in a letter... Perhaps a Full GSA Audit may be informative.