Troubled Navajo housing agency's board to be replaced following azcentral series
The Navajo Nation's embattled housing agency is set to get a new, smaller and more qualified board of commissioners under reform legislation signed by tribal President Russell Begaye.
The Navajo Housing Authority has struggled for decades to carry out its mission of providing affordable homes for tribal members.
Late last year, an Arizona Republic investigation documented that troubling performance.
While some problems are attributable to unique development obstacles in Indian country, the series showed NHA had built only a few hundred homes in recent years, many of which were never occupied or had to be torn down. At the same time, despite a need for more than 33,000 new dwellings and an equal number of refurbishments, NHA at one point accrued a backlog of nearly $500 million in unspent funds.
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