Housing authority expects deficit with power hike, subsidy cuts

CHAMPAIGN – Higher utility bills could cost the local public housing authority $100,000 in 2007 – at the same time that Congress has reduced its operating subsidy.

Edward Bland, executive director of the Housing Authority of Champaign County, wrote a letter to his supervisor, Steven E. Meiss, the Illinois director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's public housing program, on behalf of all state public housing directors.

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