BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s legislative auditor says the Louisiana Recovery Authority may have violated the public bid law when it took control of a program to build alternative housing units for hurricane victims.
The LRA took control of the so-called “Katrina cottages” housing program last year amid complaints that the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency was moving too slowly to erect cottages.
No cottages have been completed.
The auditor says the LRA entered into a new contract with the same contractor the LHFA had been using, but the LRA didn’t put the contract out for public bid.
The LRA disagrees with the finding, saying it took over management of an existing program in which a contractor already had been chosen.—-Contact The Daily Reveille news staff at [email protected]