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Housing Official Resigns
Lansing, MI: (Mar-24-08) State housing chief Michael DeVos and the state of Michigan have been embroiled in a legal battle, over his firing as director of the Michigan State Housing and Development Authority. DeVos quit under compulsion, after a year of altercations with Gov. Jennifer Granholm and with some members of his board, over alienated low-income housing investors.
Records show that DeVos's resignation was accepted by the Michigan State Housing and Development Authority, after several mediated discussions between his lawyer and the state attorney general's office. DeVos had a contract through March 2009. DeVos was MSHDA director for three years, when he left his $127,135-a-year job. The suit claimed that DeVos cost the state construction jobs and as much as $100 million in investment in low-income homes because of a decision in 2007 to cancel a usually routine round of federal tax credit awards.
As part of a settlement reached in the severance dispute, the state agreed to pay the ousted housing chief $288,538 to resolve litigation. Additionally, the state also agreed to pay DeVos $20,000 for any future claims and stipulated his resignation was not prompted by any wrongdoing. Following the deal, DeVos is barred from working for MSHDA or any other state department or agency in the future and he cannot do contract work for the state for at least three years. [THE DETROIT NEWS: RESIGNATION DEAL SIGNED BY HOUSING OFFICIAL]
Published on Mar-25-08
Records show that DeVos's resignation was accepted by the Michigan State Housing and Development Authority, after several mediated discussions between his lawyer and the state attorney general's office. DeVos had a contract through March 2009. DeVos was MSHDA director for three years, when he left his $127,135-a-year job. The suit claimed that DeVos cost the state construction jobs and as much as $100 million in investment in low-income homes because of a decision in 2007 to cancel a usually routine round of federal tax credit awards.
As part of a settlement reached in the severance dispute, the state agreed to pay the ousted housing chief $288,538 to resolve litigation. Additionally, the state also agreed to pay DeVos $20,000 for any future claims and stipulated his resignation was not prompted by any wrongdoing. Following the deal, DeVos is barred from working for MSHDA or any other state department or agency in the future and he cannot do contract work for the state for at least three years. [
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