Somethings Just Not Right

When talking senior housing, there’s only two ways apartments open up: someone dies or someone is moved into a skilled care facility.  It is not standard for seniors to only wait a few weeks for an apartment.  My aunt waited over 7 months for her placement into Kennedy Towers , considering herself lucky at that.  She’d been told that the wait could be as long as 18 months.  Troy politics has always been a little on the nasty side.  Personal attacks are nothing new is this arena.  Targeting a candidate’s family, however, isn’t usually part of the play book.  Until now. 

I wouldn’t expect the Campana family to be familiar with the standard processes and procedures for placement into one of THA’s senior complexes.  I fully expect the staff at THA to be familiar with the federal requirements and to properly apply them.  Something’s just not right at THA and its been just not right for far too long.  There’s house cleaning that needs to be done there.  I sincerely hope that HUD performs an in-depth investigation into THA’s operations.  At the very least, all applications approved by the woman who approved Jerry Campana’s application should be reviewed to see how many others she may have erroneously placed. 

Whether the Campana Family was misled by Troy Housing Authority staff or that staff chose to ignore the federal requirements, is yet to be seen.  The anonymous tipper should not have singled out Jerry Campana in the complaint.  The complaint should have been broader.  Personally, I think someone saw this as an opportunity to create political havoc for Clem Campana’s mayoral campaign. It sickens me to think that a dedicated, hard-working, inspirational 80 year old veteran may have been used as a pawn in a political game and that’s just not right.