Grassley, Bond express concern about stimulus spending on public housing

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Kit Bond (R-Mo.) reiterated their concerns that there may be millions in "waste, fruad and abuse" in spending economic stimulus money on public housing. 

In a recent letter, Grassley and Bond asked Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary Shaun Donovan about the distribution of funds to public housing authorities. 

"Taxpayers deserve an answer to why the federal agency gave tens of millions in stimulus dollars to housing authorities it found to be ‘high risk,'" Grassley said in a release. "Is there so much pressure to shovel stimulus dollars out the door that responsible stewardship has been abandoned?"

In his first letter to HUD on March 15, Grassley questioned problems with a number of housing authorities that had been raised by the HUD Office of Inspector General and not adequately addressed in a HUD response, he said.