TAMPA -- An internal audit released today blames poor management and a bad reporting system in Hillsborough County's Affordable Housing Office for the loss of $2 million in federal funds. It provides a blistering assessment of housing officials, specifically those assigned to oversee or assist the department from 2004 to 2006. The audit, at different points, refers to the county's previous housing management as "inept" and lacking "ambition and initiative to promote and pursue standards, principles and values." ...more

December 8, 2008

WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury is investigating accounting and disclosure issues at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance companies said Monday. ...more

September 29, 2008

The federal government will not pay the ousted chief executives of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac up to $24 million in exit packages. ...more

September 16, 2008

Debby is crying, and 12-year-old Solmeshia Hooks doesn't know how to make it stop. ...more

August 17, 2008

TAMPA - Tampa Housing Authority officials are unsure whether the long-planned Central Park Village redevelopment is in jeopardy, but they do not appear to be panicking. ...more

September 19, 2007