Housing Authority slashes jobs as money runs low, labor fight brews

http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2013/05/19/housing-authority-slashes-jobs-as-money-runs-low-labor-fight-brews/

The financially strapped public housing agency sent layoff notices to 30 employees on Friday — about 10 percent of its workforce — as it struggles to close a $6.4 million deficit and remain solvent. A city document shows the agency is projected to run out of cash in July, more than two months before it would get an infusion of federal funding with the start of a new fiscal year.

The layoffs are on top of 15 positions that were eliminated in April, many in middle and senior administrative posts.

Friday’s layoffs in particular hit clerks who determine eligibility for low-income housing and unionized tradesmen like laborers, plumbers and carpenters who fix the units.