Ex-housing authority director, 4 others indicted in alleged fraud scheme The South Bend Housing Authority provides housing opportunities to the South Bend community and manages more than 800 public housing units. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Published: 8:15 PM EDT July 21, 2021 Updated: 9:07 PM EDT July 21, 2021 SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The former executive director of a northern Indiana city's housing authority has been indicted along with four others in a scheme that allegedly defrauded the U.S. government of millions of dollars. Between 2014 and 2019, Tonya Robinson was the executive director of the South Bend Housing Authority (HASB). The HASB had an annual contract with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development from which it receives several hundred thousand dollars annually in assistance from the federal government. As executive director, Robinson was the primary person responsible for the overall day-to-day operations of the HASB.