Who’s Minding the HA Storerooms? Ask the X-Men, If They Get Caught

Though many of the Housing Authority’s employees do tough work, it’s unlikely that a team of superheroes were responsible for checking out equipment in a Bronx development. But when auditors working for the City Comptroller’s Office examined logbooks at the agency’s storerooms and warehouses, they found that the “X-Men” repeatedly signed out supplies at the Webster Houses in Morrisania.

That was one eye-catching example of multiple inventory-system failures that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property missing from warehouses and much more left open to theft, Comptroller Scott Stringer said last week in releasing an audit of the HA’s record-keeping system. In total, his office found multiple instances where weaknesses in its tracking, storage and management of $100 million in inventory lost the cash-strapped agency money.