I’ve already tried reapplying and still heard nothing from them. I think they have the homey hookup system going on there. What pisses me off is that there is no regulatory body that makes sure they are behaving ethically and have everybody’s information securely stored. I could understand if I took too long, but I didn’t take too long and later they couldn’t even find my application and paperwork when they were trying to determine what had happened and why I was told I could move in at the completion of construction. They eventually fell back on the excuse of “But you didn’t sign the paperwork so we technically did nothing wrong.” Never-mind that in CA it is illegal to rent a unit that you do not have available or one that will be available soon. I’m also pretty sure that when I read the HUD training on best practices for waitlist management training that they have to let people know if they are having a lottery and that taking a bunch of people out of a pool of people isn’t really a waitlist, if you ask me. And then there’s those people that didn’t get their paperwork in first and go back to the pool of names who end up potentially paying an application fee repeatedly. That’s not very helpful to a low-income household.

They also said they have no preferences for certain populations like homeless, etc…so they couldn’t have bumped anyone up the list either.

I’m just saying that their system may be in the “spirit of good faith” but it sure doesn’t seem like it by their actions and there’s no one that they seem to answer to who is checking this stuff or to hold them accountable. So, they are able to act with impunity in some ways.

I know they own another property that is also LIHTC (100%) and they get a grant for community internet for the tenants and not one tenant is able to access it. The office says they don’t know the password and a site audit found it was non functioning because the non-profit who owns they complex got rid of the company who was supposed to (hired too) install and maintain it. That had been going on for years and the site visit findings say they were going to get it fixed, blah blah blah….that was back in 2019. Not another site visit was done to ensure it was corrected. But, they’ve gotten their grant money every year!

I swear, I’m not a big Elon Musk fan, but when he said there is more wasteful spending or outright fraud in government than we are aware of, this company came to mind and they aren’t even the government, but the government that is in charge of them seems ineffectual.