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Homeless agency spends $600K on office upgrades as families live with vermin: report

The agency that looks after the city’s neediest is blowing through cash for its own digs like LeBron James furnishing his next mansion.

The Department of Homeless Services, which was recently blasted over squalid conditions at dozens of shelters, spent $600,000 beautifying its offices, according to a report Monday.

The lavish expenditures included two 75-inch Samsung 3-D TVs that cost $3,297.99 each — even after a $500 rebate.

DHS also bought 11 28-inch Samsung LED TVs for $308 each and another dozen 19-inch Samsung models that cost $174.14 a pop, according to DNAinfo, which first reported the upgrades.

Other pricey electronics included 13 Apple iPad Air tablets with 32GB of memory, and 30 iPad Airs with 16GB of memory.

The portable computers retail for $449 and $399, respectively.

The agency also spared no expense on seat comfort — dropping $429 apiece on 16 Air Grid office chairs with headrests.

In all, the department spent $90,000 on high-tech gear and furniture for its offices at 33 Beaver St.

That’s on top of $171,000 to create additional offices at the Financial District building, and $150,000 on a paint job for the seven floors the department occupies.

Last month, the city Department of Investigation issued a scathing report that exposed what Commissioner Mark Peters called “perilous” conditions at 25 shelters housing thousands of destitute families.

The report revealed 621 violations of building and fire safety codes, as well as vermin infestations — including hordes of roaches and a smelly, decaying rat corpse — and garbage littering the hallways and stairs.

At one of the worst shelters, the Brooklyn Acacia Cluster in Brownsville — where investigators found one elevator broken, and the other fouled with a large puddle of urine — residents were outraged at the DHS spending.

“When we moved in, they gave us a broken bed, a broken dresser, one chest that has two of the drawers broken,” said Denise Annisa, 49, a mother of five whose previous apartment was destroyed by fire.

“We’ve requested new stuff, but we haven’t gotten anything. It’s been over a year.”

DHS said it was “ramping up its efforts to curb an unprecedented homelessness crisis.”

“This includes adding 154 new staff members to keep families at the brink of homelessness in their homes, and help people in shelter transition back to permanent housing, and upgrading old facilities to accommodate this new staff and operation,” the DHS statement added.

The Department of Investigation declined to comment.