City Paid $31K in Rent for Dead HIV/AIDS Clients, Stringer Audit Finds
(DNAINFO) Jeff Mays | January 7, 2016 — The city’s Human Resources Administration failed to properly monitor vendors who provide housing for people with HIV/AIDS — leaving it to pay $31,000 for rent charges for nearly two dozen clients who had died, according to an audit from Comptroller Scott Stringer.
The audit of HIV/AIDS Services Administration, also known as HASA, comes as the city and state prepares to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into a plan to end HIV/AIDS by 2020. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on World AIDS Day a plan to expand HASA to 7,300 additional New Yorkers by 2020.