SBHA Waiting List
Submitted | July 25, 2019 |
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From: Ava Sasani
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Indiana Access to Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
Data on the South Bend Housing Authority's Public Housing waiting list, linked below:
https://www.hasbonline.com/check-your-place-on-the-ph-waiting-
For every year between 2012 and 2018, I am requesting:
1) the number of people on the public housing waiting list each year
2) if the data is available, number of people on the public housing waiting list each month
3) the number of people moved off the waiting list and into public housing each year
Let me know if you have any questions, please feel free to call my cell at 781-941-0829.
Best,
Ava Sasani
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 7 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Ava Sasani
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Indiana Access to Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 25, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Indiana Access to Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 25, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Indiana Access to Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 25, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Indiana Access to Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 25, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Indiana Access to Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 25, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From:
Year
Number of people on Public Housing Wait List
Number of People moved of the PH waitlist and into PH
2012
960
272
2013
234
228
2014
547
198
2015
486
348
2016
769
373
2017
708
451
2018
713
232
Karl Nichols
Asset Director
Housing Authority of South Bend
574-387-1600 (cell)
574-245-7002 (office)
From: Ava Sasani
Dear Karl,
Thanks so much for your email. Forgive my confusion, I just wanted to clarify something really quickly?
If there were 960 people on the PH waiting list in 2012, and 272 people moved off the list, how were there only 234 people on the wait list the next year, in 2013? 960-272 people=688 people remaining on the waiting list at the end of 2012, so why is the number at the start of 2013 about 1/3 of that?
Any clarification would be really helpful, thanks so much for your time!
Best,
Ava
From: South Bend Housing Authority
Good Morning Ava,
I started in this position in February of 2019 and I am unsure of why that disparity would have occurred. It could boil down to several issues:
* Housing Authorities often purge the system by sending out letters to see if people are still interested in public housing. If no response, they are removed from the wait list
* There may have been an issue with the database system that we have
* People may have been processed but no longer qualified for public housing.
I just have no way of knowing that information. Hope this explanation helps.
Karl
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