City of Chicago subsidies continue flowing to The Woodlawn Organization (TWO), the politically connected non-profit headed by Mayor Daley ally Leon Finney Jr., despite the fact that the city's own lawyers keep hauling the group into housing court for code violations at buildings it manages across the South Side. This startling revelation, uncovered by the Chicago Reporter, is the latest controversy surrounding TWO, which has gained an infamous reputation for leaving its affordable housing units in poor condition.

The piece also points out that the open spigot for TWO cuts against legislation passed by City Council earlier this year that forbids city contracts from going to "building code scofflaws." Since January, when the new rules were approved, TWO received $1.3 million from the in subsidies from the Daley Administration. "Over that same time period," the Reporter finds, "the city initiated 15 separate legal cases against the South Side developer for violations including rat infestations, broken plumbing, leaking roofs and deteriorating porches." A city spokesman said that officials are still writing enforcement rules for the law.

Those rules can't come too soon. Here's Progress Illinois' video from earlier this year of Latasha Thomas, talking about the conditions she and her family dealt with while living in a TWO building on South Kimbark in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood:

When Thomas's story originally broke, Progress Illinois asked why Leon Finney was invited by the mayor to serve on the Chicago Plan Commission, a development advisory body. An updated version of that question might be put thusly, given recent political developments: Will Chicago's next mayor demand accountability from contractors like Finney when she or he takes the reigns of city government next spring?