Can you believe it? I finally got the call that I have been waiting for! I received a message from Deandra Johnson, the assistant to Kim Kendrick, Assistant Secretary of Fair Housing and Equal opportunity at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Remember when Kim came to Rochester and got an ADAPT welcome? She was supposed to give me a call the following day regarding the numbers of Housing Choice and other vouchers that were reclaimed by HUD that were originally earmarked for people with disabilities, but were “accidentally” put back into the general pool of vouchers.
To be honest, I did not expect Kim or Deandra to call me back with numbers; that would have been a miracle of the ADAPT goddess. I expected that I would get the same tired story that they were “working” on it, and indeed, that is what I got, in so many words. She said that the FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request that we had discussed was “taking longer than usual”, but that she “just wanted to touch bases with me to let me know that she was still working on it. Sure, Kim, but of course!
I’ll do an official write-up on this for ADAPT, which I will post here.
The saga continues…