Following up on my earlier thought that maybe this federal stimulus deal hasn’t been well thought out, Locker Room’s Joe Coletti has some interesting quotes from organizations getting housing money:

*The challenge will be to ensure these resources will be allocated in a way that they get spent. It’s not like we have a network of folks ready to jump. – Chris Estes, executive director of the N.C. Housing Coalition in Raleigh

*The state has to decide how they’re going to spend it. – Denise Neunaber, executive director of the N.C. Coalition to End Homelessness

*We’ll absolutely find something to do with it. – Rae Buckley, a senior planner for the town of Chapel Hill.

Up Interstate 40/85, the Greensboro Housing Authority is getting its share of federal stimulus money. Note the numbers being tossed around:

The Greensboro Housing Authority will receive $5.58 million, Greensboro Housing Authority Executive Director Tina Akers Brown said Thursday.

The housing authority has an estimated $34.5 million worth of renovations that officials would like to do on its properties.

“Each year we do an assessment of what our needs are in our communities,” she said. “What happens is most of the time the list just sits there because we don’t have the money to do anything.”

Housing authority officials decided that the money should be spent at Claremont Courts, which was built in 1969, because it needs an estimated $18 million worth of work.

Somebody please — please— convince me those numbers aren’t just a bit inflated.