Chelsea, Mass Housing Authority manager Jacquueline Matos pays $300.00 dollars a year for her subsidised apartment

On Dec 19 we posted THIS. It concerned Chelsea, Mass director of Housing, Michael McLaughlin. He worked 15 days in 2011 and collected $360k in salary.

Not bad work if you can get it.

Now comes the story of a Chelsea, Mass Housing Authority manager named Jacquueline Matos and her Chelsea, Mass subsidised apartment.

CHELSEA - Francine Dorrance, a single mother, was already broke, unemployed, and struggling to recover from a nervous breakdown in summer 2006 when the Chelsea Housing Authority moved to evict her over $276 in unpaid rent.

After a judge approved the eviction, Dorrance became homeless. It would be almost five years before she would again have a permanent address.

But Dorrance’s misfortune was a boon to the housing authority official who oversaw her eviction. Five days after a constable removed Dorrance’s belongings, Jacqueline Matos, a housing manager for the authority, moved into the vacant apartment. Matos still lives there, continuing to pay just $25 a month in rent, a small fraction of what Dorrance paid. [...]

[...] The Chelsea Housing Authority is the only public housing authority in the state known to give a housing manager an apartment and to charge almost no rent, according to federal and state housing officials. While low-income people are told they could wait up to two years for a subsidized apartment to become available, Matos and two other housing managers live in public housing units for just $300 per year under a program that authority officials say improves tenant safety. [...]