Chicago Affordable Housing Scam: 1 man, 2 'affordable' homes

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The City of Chicago spends millions of dollars to create "affordable'' homes for working families.

The program has worked out really well for Rob M. Twardy, who bought one taxpayer-subsidized condo in March 2003 — and a second one just six months later.


And Twardy — who's 34 and teaches chemistry at Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park — doesn't appear to live in either affordable home.

He has the tax bills sent to a third condo, purchased in 2005, that's part of another taxpayer-funded program that saves him thousands of dollars a year in property taxes.

The Chicago Way. Another great article by Sun-Times reporters Tim Novak and Chris Fusco.