A member of Punta Gorda’s housing authority board tenders his resignation in order to prevent two tenants from being evicted.

According to the Sun Merritt Brown served as both a commissioner on the PGHA board and president of the board of directors of the Bernice A. Russell Community Development Corporation – the company that owns the housing that that is being administered by the housing authority board.

The US department of Housing and Urban Decelopment notified the board in October that the conflict of interest issue had to be resolved or the tenants would be forced out at the end of their leases.