Prince George's County Will Cooperate with GOP Probe Into Alsobrooks-Era Housing Violations

Prince George’s County officials pledged Thursday to cooperate with a House Republican probe into substandard public housing conditions that the GOP says involved multiple violations of Housing and Urban Development regulations for Section 8 housing, county communications staff said. The county’s response follows a letter emailed Monday to the Prince George’s County public housing agency requesting documents and records tied to safety complaints and HUD inspections.

The letter was signed by Republican leaders of the House Financial Services Committee and its subcommittees: Rep. French Hill of Arkansas, chair of the House Financial Services Committee; Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania, chair of the oversight subcommittee; and Rep. Mike Flood of Nebraska, chair of the housing subcommittee. The signatories flagged “multiple violations of Housing and Urban Development regulations for Section 8 housing” and asked for “detailed financial records and documentation of how the Democrat-controlled county adjoining the nation’s capital has addressed years of safety complaints and failed HUD inspections,” the correspondence states.

County communications director Sharon Taylor said the congressional inquiry covers a specific window. “We fully intend to cooperate with the inquiry, recognizing that it covers a period from January 2021, during a previous administration,” Taylor said in a phone call, referencing the period that overlaps with part of Angela Alsobrooks’ tenure as county executive. One of 32 letters sent to HUD-identified “troubled public housing agencies” dates the concerns to the middle of Ms. Alsobrooks’ administration; Alsobrooks served as county executive from 2018 to 2024 and became Maryland’s junior U.S. senator in January 2025.

Taylor added that county staff will work to compile the requested materials. “We’re going to work our hardest to provide everything that’s requested,” she said in the phone call, identifying herself as communications director for County Executive Aisha Braveboy. The county has not provided a public timeline for delivering the documents requested in the Monday letter, and the letter’s full text has not been released publicly.

The GOP inquiry into Prince George’s County is part of a broader outreach to 32 HUD-identified troubled public housing agencies, according to the correspondence; the inquiries seek records spanning years of complaints and inspection failures rather than alleging specific property-level violations in the text made public so far. The letter’s stated focus on Section 8 regulatory breaches places the questions squarely on federally assisted rental programs administered locally.

The Washington Times has reached out to Senator Angela Alsobrooks’ Senate office for comment. At this stage, HUD’s role is not detailed in the public letter itself, and county officials have said they will cooperate while noting the probe’s January 2021 start date falls within a prior administration. The scope of any follow-up — subpoenas, hearings, or HUD enforcement actions — depends on the committee chairs and the material the county provides.