I do believe that this is a topic (Tax Exempt Status) that should be discussed, but it is going to be on the "fine line" regarding the COC.  I don't believe that tax exempt status is the problem in this case.

 

Regarding the entity that the OP brought up, this sounds like more of a scam rather than a charity.  It is most certainly not a church in the way most established religions are such as the Catholic Church, Baptist Church, etc.  I hadn't paid much attention to it until the OP posted this thread.  This article regarding Eureka Gardens really raised my eyebrows.

 

I do believe that this goes beyond tax exempt status.  This is a failure (yet again) of government plain and simple.

 

 A few quotes from the article that I linked.

Quote: 

Eureka Gardens tenants called News4Jax, crying foul after a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development inspection gave the complex a passing score of an 85 in August. A week after those reports aired, a multi-agency city code enforcement sweep at the complex uncovered numerous defects that were not included in the HUD report.

 
The city inspection found 163 units out of 400 with code violations at Eureka Gardens. That's 40 percent of the homes in squalor.

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JALA attorneys are also looking into the fact that Hamlet (pictured below) and his company have spent only 3 percent of $7 million in federal funding on maintenance and repairs for the six Jacksonville properties.

 

Those properties were purchased in 2012, and in one year, Global Ministries Foundation pulled in $7 million to run the properties, according to an audit. But the company spent just $242,757 of that on maintenance and repairs spread across all six aging housing facilities.

 

These people are getting tax payer dollars in the form of subsidies to run these properties, and they are getting even more tax payer dollars since rent is paid via HUD.

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