Former TCHC exec Gordon Chu got the city to pay for his car—twice
While Rob Ford wants to sell off Toronto Community Housing homes to raise money for repairs, the TCHC could probably find cash through some further belt-tightening. Case in point: the Globe and Mail reports that Gordon Chu, the corporation’s former CFO, pocketed his vehicle allowance while driving a fancy-sounding car leased by a TCHC subsidiary. Now the corporation is trying to get back the $57,000 it spent on Chu’s superfluous car lease over a five-year period. The story’s not that surprising, given past transgressions at the TCHC—last year, Toronto’s auditor general criticized expense reports that included spa trips, lavish holiday parties and Holt Renfrew chocolates (some of that stuff was exaggerated, but still). Chu retired back in 2010, so he avoided the general ass kicking that followed. Until now, we suppose. Read the entire story [Globe and Mail] »
TCHC could easily cut costs by not building so many more buildings, almost 10% of their units are vacant while they put millions in building new buildings when they could fix the vacant ones to be livable at a fraction of the cost to put up new relestate.
The wage of TCHC are unreal, they are way over staffed making over the top wages with their homes and cars all paid off, check the website for jobs and see the starting wages your self, you can make 88,000.00 a year with next to no education at all.
While TCHC is rated one of the best places to work in the world. The buildings are also rated the worst place to live (google or youtube “Canada’s worst landlord”).
My aunt worked for TCHC for 2 years during that time she paid off her student loan (she went to collage to be a dentist but TCHC paid better), house and bought 2 new cars, she told me that all the staff look at their wages as just a drop in the bucket the real gain comes from all the extra cash and gifts you can scam like a new cars as posted in this story!