Chicago Housing Authority Needs To Improve Its Management and Controls Over Purchasing

The controls used by the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) over its procurement of goods and services was surveyed. CHA, a major Chicago landlord housing 140,000 people in the 40,000 rental units it owns and/or manages, has about two-thirds of its funds provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Since 1977, CHA has been operating at a deficit and has continued to stay solvent only because HUD has paid in advance subsidies totaling $20 million through 1979.