Carolyn
That’s for sure. I started working in this program in 1984. Outright fraud on both sides, landlord and tenant. Property degradation? As a field inspector, I had to shoulder in more apartment doors than I care to count. Garbage piled so high on the floor you couldn’t even access the unit.
Had a woman try to bribe me once. Major slumlord in the town I worked in. Did a home inspection, found a number of items that would fail the unit [and henceforth deny the subsidy to the landlord until conditions remedied]. Told her she had to get them fixed. Overheard her tell the tenant in the next room ‘It will be okay, she’s just a girl [meaning me].’ Took me outside and offered me a very high paying job with all the perks if I would run interference for her with the Authority.....I offered her the chance to lead the way down into another part of the complex, where I promptly failed the entire BUILDING for a major cockroach infestation....
So much for the ‘just a girl’ idea. Wow, my first post and it’s a long one!