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SAN FRANCISCO; Agnos expected to get housing task.

Publication: San Francisco Chronicle
Publication Date: 21-MAR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: SAN FRANCISCO; Agnos expected to get housing task.(BAY AREA)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Heather Knight

A San Francisco Superior Court judge is expected to turn over control of the city's Housing Authority today to Art Agnos, charging the former mayor with ensuring that the agency's $15 million in legal debts are paid.

The debts stem from court judgments in two sexual harassment cases and a 1997 fire in a public housing development that killed a grandmother and five children.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which funds the Housing Authority, has prohibited the agency from using federal money to pay the judgments.

The Housing Authority, which operates 6,400 public housing units and serves 35,000 residents, has seen its budget cut by the federal government every year for the past five years. It has had to lay off...

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