{"id":135427,"date":"2026-02-16T20:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135427\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:12:27","slug":"hud-letter-says-manhattan-housing-authority-in-substantial-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135427\/","title":{"rendered":"HUD letter says Manhattan Housing Authority in &#8216;substantial default&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan Housing Authority is in a state of \u201csubstantial default,\u201d according to a letter from the federal government obtained by The Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials say MHA, which oversees federally subsidized low-income housing, is in default \u201cwith respect to the covenants or conditions to which the public housing agency is subject.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, MHA received a low score on its routine assessment and was required to show substantial improvement on subsequent annual assessments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/news\/hud-letter-says-manhattan-housing-authority-in-substantial-default\/article_31aaa557-1e8d-4b48-ba3b-0321dcf7c2dd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1350kman.com\/category\/local-news\/manhattan-local-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here for more local Manhattan news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan Housing Authority is in a state of \u201csubstantial default,\u201d according to a letter from the federal government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-135427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}