Planned privatization of public housing complexes has city workers and their union worried
Hundreds of employees at the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) could be laid off as the agency moves toward selling nearly two dozen public housing complexes to private developers, said a source close to the union that represents the workers.
Maintenance workers for the agency are the primary category of employee threatened with losing their jobs, said Tessa Hill-Aston, president of the Baltimore City NAACP. Hill-Aston said she has been meeting with officials of the local AFSCME units that represent the workers in an attempt to understand the budding crisis.
“We are trying to see what we can do to try not to have them laid off,” Hill-Aston said in an interview with The Brew. “A lot of those people have been there a long time. They have mortgages, children in college, loans. They are working class people and they work around the clock.”
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Welcome to Maryland --those people are way more important than the 100s 0f thousands already out of work
ReplyDeleteSo the Housing Authority is going to sell off these buildings that are owned by the taxpayers then take the money and "lend" it back to the developers that bought it so they can renovate the buildings and in the process give them a break on their taxes. The taxpayers will also give the new owners subsidies to pay the tenants rents. (They will remain section 8). Somebody's going to make a bunch of money from this and it won't be the taxpayers.
ReplyDeletecorrect 8:55 but there is no tax revenue in the equation to give a break on. Sounds like all expenses to me and the chance to renovate then amortize an investment that could lead to a revenue stream, private jobs, and an eventual tax revenue.
ReplyDeleteI could be wrong -who knows we are talking about the most corrupt City in the second most corrupt State in the Union