Pittsburgh housing authority to vote on embattled executive director from Oregon

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh board is set to name a woman who is under investigation by an ethics committee in Oregon as its new executive director.

Board members aren’t talking, but they are set to vote Thursday on Ivory Mathews as the new executive director.

Until recently, Mathews served as the executive director of Home Forward, the housing authority in the city of Portland, but she resigned in May after published reports that she had spent more than $100,000 in public money on travel over a three-year period to places like Hawaii, Las Vegas, Alaska and Orlando…

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