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Controversial property to hit the market again By Jayme Fraser I January 15, 2014
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The Harris County Housing Authority again win attempt to sell a 91-acre Lake Houston property tied to a failed
veterans housing development and at the center of two scathing federal audits.
'With the sale of this property, I expect to be able to pay HUD the lull amount we owe from mismanagement of
the prior administration; authority CEO Tom McCasland said.
A previous attempt to sell the lakeside land was unsuccessful.
Last June, McCasland said real estate professionals had told him the land, originally purchased lor $6.5 million
in 2009, may be worth as little as $3.6 million because part of the tract includes wetlands.
The listing was removed, and the housing authority worked to make the property more desirable. The agency
arranged lor sewage to be processed at a nearby treatment plant and adapted the wetlands mitigation plan to
increase the usable acreage to about 7 4 acres.
Whatever money the county agency does recoup from the sale likely will be sent to the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development as a payment toward the millions of dollars the federal agency demanded be
repaid last year.
Two audits released in June by separate offiCes of the federal housing agency cor~eluded former housing
authority leaders mismanaged up to $27.5 million in federal housing funds during a three-year period ending
in April 2012. The county agency contends that alter cleaning up its books, i t can show it owes much less than
that.
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