Investigators didn’t have to look very far to catch a couple who allegedly defrauded the city Housing Authority of more than $100,000 in subsidies considering that the husband worked for the agency, sources said yesterday.

The Department of Investigation said a Brooklyn couple had been arrested for collecting $100,492 in Section 8 subsidies that they didn’t deserve beginning in 2002.

Evelyn Miranda, 50, listed herself as the only occupant of a Housing Authority apartment between June 2002 and this month, but she was actually living with her husband, John 48, who was employed by the Housing Authority as a $63,266 maintenance supervisor until March 2008, sources said.

After that, John Miranda went to work for the city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services as a $73,885 associate project manager.

Both face up to five years in prison if convicted.