Spring Valley, NY – Federal authorities faulted Spring Valley’s handling of its Section 8 office during a meeting today between village officials and members of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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The meeting was called to discuss HUD’s comprehensive program review of the village’s administration of the Section 8 office.
“They obviously had issues with the way we’re running the department,” Bruce Levine, the village attorney, said, “and they said that we would be expected to make improvements and they would work with us on doing so, and it was a good meeting because it certainly enabled village officials, particularly the mayor, to know what was at issue or what was out there so we have a good sense of how to fix the problem.” Levine declined to discuss the specifics of the meeting.
In addition to Levine, other village officials who attended were Mayor George Darden, Section 8 coordinator Monique Anderson and Deputy Mayor Noramie Jasmin.
Adam Glantz, a HUD spokesman, said he could not discuss specifics of the meeting. A report of the findings would be ready soon, he added, and the village would have 45 days to respond.
A probe by HUD’s Inspector General’s Office is ongoing. That office handles allegations of waste, fraud and abuse.
The Spring Valley Section 8 office oversees federal housing vouchers for low-income tenants in the village and several communities across Rockland.
The voucher program, run by the HUD, pays landlords a percentage of a tenant’s monthly rent. The apartments have to meet strict codes to qualify for the vouchers for low-income tenants.
Hopefuly they will get the waiting list moving..
Hopefully they will stop section 8 in Monsey/spring valley and the real estate will drop a little and yungerliet will be able to buy and rent apartments. Now an apartment in monsey costs about 650.000 thanks to section 8
now in williamsburg an apt cost 900k thanks to section 8
why does section 8 affect the price of apartments?
In America it used to be if you wanted to buy a house you worked HARD and put away penny on penny for years and finally when you accumulated a nice amount you put down the money to buy a house a dream home, and you felt good you earned it by.
Today in America the working guy has NOTHING can forget of ever buying a dream home, but the guy that lives of the city oh yes he is living in a dream home, and he cant even go out to work, because then he loses everything.
How ironic you live off the city you have nice granite kitchen and marble floors, well and gates on the windows….., but if you go out to work you live in a basement with mice and the rats while the next door neighbor living off the HUD is smiling when he comes out from that beautiful home given to him on a silver plate at no cost.
Someone asked why does section 8 affect the price of apartments. The answer is that the market price of a house is decided by supply and demand. If their aren’t many who can or are willing the high price requested, then the price falls. But those who get section-8 don’t really care how much the price is because section-8 pays the bulk, therefore what we now have is that the average amount that the section-8 holder has to give from their own pocket is much higher then what SHOULD be normal rent for everyone. So we now have the section-8 holders who can’t go out to work out of fear of loosing all their entitlements/benefits, and the average worker spends most of his income for rent. In my opinion, secion-8 is the number one wrecker of the average workers finances. Bankruptcy on credit cards which usually is used to make ends meet is also being removed as an option as the credit card companies change the rules in midstream with impunity and the noose is getting tighter and tighter. I wish that section-8 should be abolished, the pain which will be overcome by its holders is nothing compared to the pain it has caused all of us.
I forgot to explain that when someone buys a two family house or a second apartment, his first question is what is the income, because he is looking for the income to pay his mortgage. So if the rent and income is high because section-8 pays it, therefore he is ready to pay much more for the house or apartment and that is the reason a the a decent apartment in Monsey costs 650K and a decent apartment in Williamsburg costs 900K.