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Longtime Stark Housing Authority employee Veda Davis, who'd been fired, settles suit with agency. Deal enables her to collect more retirement benefits.

Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority Executive Director Herman Hill will take same role at Akron Housing Authority. He was picked from a field of 50.

CANTON – Agency emails contradict some statements Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority Executive Director Herman Hill has made about the purchase of a house and a job provided for its tenant.  The Canton Repository reported in February that the Housing Authority bought a house on 41st Street NW in the Plain Local Schools' system. It was leased to Section 8 voucher-holder Britnee Allen of Orrville; she then was hired for a newly-added agency position. Hill knew Allen. He and Allen's seventh-grade sons, both now living in the Plain Local school system, played on a travel basketball te...

CANTON  Britnee Allen's rental house and new job at the Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority are glowing examples of an agency success story — or the fruits of favoritism from the top. On one hand: Using her government-funded Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8), the unemployed single mom moved her family from Orrville into the Plain Local School District and a house on 41st Street NW the Housing Authority had recently purchased. Then in short order, Allen landed a newly-added Housing Authority position that pays almost $40,000 a year — which enabled her to abandon her housing subsi...

But on the other hand: Hill knew Allen personally. Their now seventh-grade sons, both currently living in the Plain school system, played together on an Ohio Phenom Academy travel basketball team in 2017, and have played against each other since. And that house Allen leases on 41st Street was the only one purchased last year by the Housing Authority. Some former and current Housing Authority employees said they believe Hill used his position to give Allen special treatment. Last month, an anonymous letter was sent to at least some of the Housing Authority's five appointed board members �...