The Chicago Housing Authority is trying to take away the housing subsidy it gives to one of its own board members, alleging longtime Commissioner Debra Parker was caught violating the rules of the agency’s voucher program, the Sun-Times and WBEZ have learned.
CHA Board Chair and interim Operating Chairman Matthew Brewer told Mayor Brandon Johnson this week that he should consider removing Parker from the board after a hearing officer for the agency upheld the termination of her voucher last month.
“The findings of fraud and intentional deception in relation to CHA housing programs raise substantial concerns regarding Commissioner Parker’s fiduciary responsibility,” Brewer wrote to Johnson in a letter sent Wednesday and obtained by the Sun-Times…