Housing Board calls for furloughs, facility closure in budget decisions
The Mobile Housing Board hopes furlough days for employees and the planned closing of an assisted...
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Mobile Housing Board loses $88,000 in first quarter
The Mobile Housing Board (MHB) lost nearly $88,000 in the first three months of its fiscal year, according to financial information provided during a regular meeting May 13. The board failed to meet its projected revenues in the...
Read MoreHUD to allow Mobile Housing Board to sell vacant complex
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has agreed to allow the Mobile Housing Board to sell off Josephine Allen Homes, MHB Executive Director Dwayne Vaughn said during a meeting Wednesday morning. The 292-unit...
Read MoreHousing Board postpones first two regular meetings of year
The Mobile Housing Board postponed its regularly scheduled meetings in January and February. Both original meetings were rescheduled due to failure to reach a quorum, Executive Director Dwayne Vaughn wrote in an email message...
Read MoreHousing Board receives another ‘substandard management’ designation
For the second straight year, the Mobile Housing Board received a substandard management designation from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and for the second straight year, MHB Executive Director Dwayne Vaughn...
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COVER STORY: The ‘new’ public housing: mixed-use, mixed-income
Last month, as the Mobile Housing Board decided to move forward with a $750 million redevelopment...
Read MoreMobile Housing Board receives ‘substandard’ designation; $439 million plan revealed
The Mobile Housing Board’s failing score on a recent federal assessment is a reflection of a large number of vacant units, not shortcomings in management or other issues, according to Dwayne Vaughn, the board’s executive...
Read MoreOur leaders have failed
To the editor: The Mobile Housing Authority receives millions of dollars each year from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to moderate and low-income families....
Read MoreJones’ Housing Board appointments could make changes tough
Though former Mayor Sam Jones ran up against the political rocks while trying to reappoint members to the Industrial Development Board before he left office, he did not have similar problems re-upping the terms of three Mobile...
Read MoreEmployee numbers at Mobile Housing Board subsidiary explode despite money losing year
According to financial records provided to the IRS by Mobile Development Enterprises, the non-profit subsidiary of the Mobile Housing Board was more than $500,000 in the red in 2011 even as its number of employees exploded by...
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