At the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority board meeting in November 2025, then-executive director Nathan Simms highlighted the progress on refreshing the aging apartments in the Young Terrace and Grandy Village public housing communities for rental.
“We’ve completed a total of 86 unit turn/refresh activities, 47 at Grandy, 39 at Young Terrace, just around an average cost of $6,000 per unit,” he said. “We’re working through that process actively.”
Thirty minutes later, Simms was fired by a board vote after board members learned he had issued at least $4.3 million in no-bid contracts during a tenure lasting less than two years…