{"id":292737,"date":"2026-09-24T04:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292737\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T04:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:04:17","slug":"pittsburgh-housing-authority-expected-to-pick-ex-home-forward-ceo-ivory-mathews-to-lead-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292737\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Housing Authority Expected to Pick Ex-Home Forward CEO Ivory Mathews to Lead Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Pittsburgh\u2019s Public Source, a nonprofit newsroom based in Pittsburgh, the city\u2019s housing authority is poised to pick<\/a> former Home Forward CEO Ivory Mathews as the agency\u2019s new executive director. <\/p>\n

The board for the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh is set to take a vote at its Sept. 24 meeting on whether to hire Mathews for the job. If hired, she would replace a longtime executive director who is seeking to retire. <\/p>\n

Mathews resigned from Home Forward under a cloud of controversy this spring after WW reported on her superfluous travel spending<\/a> while conditions inside her agency\u2019s buildings deteriorated<\/a>, the agency struggled to fill its more than 900 empty units<\/a> in a timely manner,<\/a> and as its housing portfolio inched closer to the red. Home Forward, which functions as the city of Portland\u2019s housing authority, owns and operates around 7,000 affordable housing units and provides about 12,000 housing vouchers across the metro area. With an annual budget of around $300 million, most of it flowing from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Home Forward is the largest affordable housing provider in the state.<\/p>\n

After Mathews\u2019 resignation, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted unanimously to launch an investigation<\/a> into Mathews\u2019 travel expenditures. A preliminary report by commission staff\u2014conducted prior to the commission\u2019s vote for a full probe\u2014found that Mathews had authorized her own travel<\/a> and may have spent agency money on lodging and travel for family members, among other potential violations of ethics laws. The staff investigator determined there was \u201csubstantial objective basis to believe that Mathews may have violated the use of office and conflict of interest provisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ethics commission investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

According to the Pittsburgh housing authority\u2019s board documents, a hiring firm recommended Mathews after narrowing the pool of candidates down to four finalists.<\/p>\n

Willamette Week\u2019s reporting has real-life impact that changes laws, forces action by civic leaders, and drives compromised politicians from public office. <\/p>\n

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