The CEO of the Mobile Housing Authority is blasting Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, and the City Council for what he says is a “smear campaign” against the agency and himself, accusing them of supporting past efforts that would have “effectively put MHA out of business.”

Michael Pierce, in a blistering four-page letter on Thursday to the MHA’s board of commissioners, said he feels that the city should be “incensed” that its city leaders have refused “to congratulate and/or acknowledge MHAs Board, executives and staff for the agency’s remarkable turnaround.”