“MassHousing employees raking in $200G+ salaries, driving leased cars, parking for free;
Payroll trails only MBTA, Massport” (Boston Herald):
The state agency charged with funding affordable housing is home to some of the most lucrative jobs in the state, with its executive director and other top aides each making more than $200,000 a year, while spending more than $100,000 on a fleet of leased cars with downtown parking, a Herald review has found.
MassHousing, a quasi-public agency that has received little scrutiny or accountability over the years, forks over millions of dollars annually to pay for its high-salaried top officials, who make significantly more than Gov. Charlie Baker and other top state officials.
Nine MassHousing employees rake in more than $200,000 a year. More than 150 of the agency’s 375 employees make more than $100,000, payroll records show.
MassHousing’s executive director, Chrystal Kornegay, who was hired earlier this year, earns $270,000 annually, making her one of the highest-paid non-law enforcement or non-higher education officials in the state.
Former Deputy Director Karen Kelleher made $248,709 a year…
I still can’t figure out how our public housing system of haves and have-nots makes sense. If housing is a human right, everyone who doesn’t work should get a free house rather than, potentially, a place on a 10-year waiting list. If housing is not a human right, why are there millions of Americans getting free housing?
I guess the system works well and makes perfect sense to the folks at MassHousing!
I still can’t figure out how our public housing system of haves and have-nots makes sense. If housing is a human right, everyone who doesn’t work should get a free house rather than, potentially, a place on a 10-year waiting list. If housing is not a human right, why are there millions of Americans getting free housing?
The answer must be that government programs don’t exist based on whether they’re considered to be rights.
Phil: Are you annoyed when people are paid a livable wage?
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And you are counting pennies that the ever-revolutionary Commonwealth of Massachusetts pays their best citizens. Shame on you!!!
Sarcasm: off.
Good point. If they don’t earn at least $100k they might be eligible for public
housing themselves! See http://www.bostonhousing.org/en/For-Applicants/How-Do-I-Apply-for-BHA-Housing/Income-Table.aspx
Our housing policies reflect our own conflicted desires. On the one hand, poor people should not be homeless, simply for being poor. On the other hand, I worked hard and sacrificed to live in a very pleasant and desirable area of the country and I don’t think we should be building subsidized housing anywhere near me. Its analogous to cars. If I had to subsidize a poor man’s transportation needs in order for him to get a job, I’d buy him a Toyota Corolla, not a Mercedes.
It’s really nothing to do with housing policy though, this is just simple graft and corruption.
@brian so there are no jobs near you for lower income people? Or they just be commuting from somewhere else to come do all those jobs in your neighborhood? I believe a mix of income levels within an area is recognized as healthy.
If you want to help the poor(er), just keep trading in perfectly good cars. The absorption of front-loaded depreciation is one of the biggest voluntary redistributions out there. And I don’t have to be poor to benefit.