The Scoop

Debbie Cenziper, Susannah Nesmith and Tim Henderson of the Miami Herald have a four-part series on spending by the Miami-Dade Housing Agency, which “became an unchecked cash machine for developers and consultants and its own leaders and failed the families it was meant to serve.” Among its failings: “the Housing Agency paid more than $12 million to developers who promised dozens of houses but built only two, and years later, never returned the money.” It also “diverted another $5 million money earmarked by state law to build homes for the poor to pay for a new office building complete with a $287,000 bronze sculpture of stacked teacups called Space Station that was shipped from Italy.”