Housing authority spends big, now has no money to pay it back

CHIEF’S DESIGN: This statue, based on drawings from a former CEO, outside one of the agency’s housing developments at a cost of $101,450. By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org Texas Bureau HOUSTON — The Harris County Housing Authority is a generous landlord, one that gave its tenants $8,500 in gift cards to Walmart for Christmas in 2011....