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Date March 30, 1982 Report No. CED-82-60 Title

Housing Block Grant Activity in Seattle: A Case Study

eneral Accounting Off-key Nausing Block Grant Activity ‘ Seattle: A Case Study In ,/ iMany cities have used Community Oevelopment Block Grant funds to develop and 1 implement a wide variety of housing activitiltss. This case study af experience in one city--Seattle, Washington--provides insight i af the kind end extent of housing activity i under the Cammunity Developmsnt Block / Grant Program. ...
Date March 8, 1982 Report No. GGD-82-32 Title

Housing: District Could Get More for Urban Renewal Property, but HUD Debt Will Be Repaid

General Accounting Off ice District Coukl Get More For Urban Renewal Property, But HUD Debt Will Be Repaid District urban renewal land sales should generate sufficient revenue to satisfy the remaining debt to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but it is not certain that the District is receiving the best possible prices for such properties. Although the District has no formal guideli...
Date July 23, 1981 Report No. GGD-81-85 Title

Financial Management: The Urban and Community Impact Analysis Program, if Retained, Will Need Major Improvements

,r- ih l’#yq$j )j$f/& ES THE U.S.GENERAL ACCOUbJTING OFFiCi Report To The Director Of The Office Of Management And Budget The Urban And Community Impact Analysis Program, If Retained, Will Need Major Improvements The Urban and Community Impact Analysis program, administered by the Office of Management and Budget, has not achieved intended results. Hampered more by administrative rather than tech...
Date June 25, 1981 Report No. CED-81-130 Title

Housing: Analysis of HUD Efforts To Alleviate Housing Abandonment

UNITEDSTATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE : . B-203775 ‘ The Honorable United States Dear Senator Subject: ,/,i June 25,1981 : Arlen Specter Senate Specter: Analysis of HUD's May 4, 1981, Response Concerning Its Efforts to Alleviate Housing Abandonment (CED-81-130) *. In response to your January 26, 1981, request and as modified through subsequent discussions with your office, we have analyzed the ...
Date June 15, 1981 Report No. HRD-81-63 Title

Health: Health Service Program Needs Assessments Found Inadequate

/(Y!v f?&port ToThe Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL Health Service Program Needs Assessments Found Inadequate The Department of Health and Human Services operates programs to address many of the Nation’s health care problems. Many of these programs require that an assessment of the need for the proposed services be made. GAO found that the need determination mechanisms for t...
Date April 30, 1981 Report No. CED-81-76 Title

Housing: The Community Development Block Grant Program Can Be More Effective in Revitalizing the Nation's Cities

RELEASED outside the fbuerd prsrfulerr~ - Hot to be released Amounting Office excogt WI CAe basis of SfWdiC uppg*~d by the Office of Corngrewtwal WelaBisn~ BY THE COMPTl’?O~I FR GENERAL Report To The Ranking Minority Member Committee On Appropriations United States Senate OF THE UNITED STATES The Community Development Block Grant Program Can Be More Effective In Revitalizing The Nation’s Citie...
Date Feb. 17, 1981 Report No. CED-81-62 Title

Economic Development: Examination of the Financial Statements of the Urban Renewal Fund for Fiscal Year 1979

i I UNITED STATES GENERAL AccOuNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 COMMUNITY AN0 ONCLOCMCNT ECONOMIC OIVIIION FEBRUARY 17,198l B-201307 The Honorable Samuel R. Pierce, The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dear Mr. Secretary: Subject: of the Financial Statements of he Urban Renewal Fund for Fiscal Year 19797 (CED-81-62) Jr. 114370 by the The Urban Renewal Program, which is administered De...
Date Nov. 24, 1980 Report No. CED-81-17 Title

Natural Resources: Additional Federal Aid for Urban Water Distribution Systems Should Wait Until Needs Are Clearly Established

rr3m :BY’:THFiCOMPTROL.;ER GENERAL ,Report To The Congresg OF THE UNITEDSTATES Additional Federal Aid For Urban Water Distribution Systems Should Wait Until Needs Are Clearly Established A move is on to modify Federal policy to provide more aid to help large cities rehabilitate and improve their water supply and distribution systems. Such programs, if enacted, could add billions of dollars to th...
Date Sept. 24, 1980 Report No. CED-80-139 Title

Housing: Domestic Housing and Community Development Issues for Planning

SIUDY BY THE STAFF THE U.S. OF General Accounting Office Domestic Housing Communi ,ty Devel Issues For Planning As we enter the 1980s a decent, safe, and sanitary home and a suitable living environment for all Americans is a goal that is still far from being achieved. The increasing cost of constructing and operating housing continues to adversely affect our Nation’s efforts in meeting housing n...
Date July 25, 1980 Report No. CED-80-121 Title

Economic Development: Status of the Youngstown, Ohio, Community Development Block Grant and Urban Development Action Grant Eligibility

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Date March 20, 1980 Report No. CED-80-80 Title

Housing: Criteria for Participation in the Urban Development Action Grant Program Should Be Refined

OF THE -UNITEDSTATES RELEASED Criteria For Participation In The Urban Development Action Grant Program Should Be Refined According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s eligibility criteria for the Urban Development Action Grant Program, 52 percent, or 333 of the 646, large cities and urban counties in the United States are “severely distressed” and eligible for Urban Developm...
Date Feb. 12, 1980 Report No. GGD-80-18 Title

Environmental Protection: Delays in Developing and Implementing the District of Columbia Government's Elements of a Comprehensive Plan for the National Capital

.- UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOuNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FEBRUARY 12.1980 B-197703 The Elonorable Marion S. Earry, Jr. Mayor of the District of Columbia Washington, C.C. 20004 Dear Mayor Barry: c7p J .:6 .s CT?-"I zelays in Developing and Implementing the District of Columbia Government's Elements of a C prehensive Plan for the National Capital4 (GGC-80-18) The District of Columbia govern...
Date Nov. 13, 1979 Report No. CED-80-3 Title

Urban Homesteading: A Good Program Needing Improvement

BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL Report ToThe Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES Urban Homesteading: A Good Program Needing Improvement Declinin urban neighborhoods are being revived by a omesteading whereby an abandoned house is iven to a homesteader who must fix it up anI!! live there for a certain number of years in order to receive title to the house. The program holds promise but some improvements are neede...
Date Nov. 7, 1979 Report No. CED-80-2 Title

Housing: Serving a Broader Economic Range of Families in Public Housing Could Reduce Operating Subsidies

BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Congress OF THE UNITED STATES Serving A Broader Economic Range Of Families In Public Housing Could Reduce Operating Subsidies The financial condition of some agencies providing housing assistance to low-income families continues to deteriorate despite Federal legislation enacted 5 years ago to counteract this trend. Providing housing for a broader economic ...
Date Sept. 17, 1979 Report No. PAD-79-85 Title

Economic Development: HUD Comments on GAO Testimony

PROGR’AM OIvlrlO~l AMALYSIS I September 17, 1979 8 'Dr. Delphis Goldberg ' Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Committee for Government Operations House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear l L * 5 , pc t LJ :' Dr. Goldberg : We thank you for the Department of Zousing and -) - * on GAO mittee onJislay 23 I 1979.’ c ??e find nothing 'in the HUD commeqts whi...
Date May 23, 1979 Report No. 109479 Title

Economic Development: Review of Urban Development Action Grant Program

UNITED STATES GENERALACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON,D.C. 20548 Chief Statement uf Dennis J. Dugan Economist of U.S. General Accounting Office Subcommittee^,~ on_.~-~,~~~povernmental ---.._ 7-.- "*-.,..--.- Unlted States the Relations Andy Hugan Resources Hou%'CcmrultfGYe c5ri Gbbernnent Operdtions-. Before For Reiease cm Delivery Expected at 9:30 a.m. May 23, i979 109479 Hr. Chairman We are and memb...
Date March 30, 1979 Report No. CED-79-64 Title

Housing: Improvements Needed in Selecting and Processing Urban Development Action Grants

REPOl-?T THE U.S. BY ' General Accounting Offke Improvements Needed In Selecting And Processing Urban Development Action Grants GAO has reservations about the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s use of Urban Development Action Grant funds, The purposes of certain grants could not be related to the action grant program’s objectives nor the broad descriptive material HUD has given to t...
Date March 14, 1979 Report No. FGMSD-79-14 Title

Financial Management: Action Being Taken To Correct Weaknesses in the Rehabilitation Loan Program

REPORTBY THE U.S. General Accounting Office Action Being Taken To Correct Weaknesses In The Rehabilitation Loan Program The Department of Housing and Urban Development services and accounts for defaulted rehabilitation loans valued at over $53 million. In fiscal 1977 over $2 mill ion, or about 53 percent of the total amount due on the loans during the year, was not collected. This situation result...
Date Jan. 16, 1979 Report No. PAD-79-43 Title

Housing: Early Sales of Section 8 Housing

CoMPTROLJ.ER QEIWRAL W~INQTON. OF TIM D.C. UNITED STA- 2054@ B-171 ,630 The Honorable Williafn Proxmire Chairman, Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs sEla/co76~’ United States Senate HI 108394 I Dear Mr. Chairman: Office A~~,~:,~J The Program Analysis Division of the General Accounting is currently performing a study of alternative financing mechanisms for subsidized housing productio...
Date Aug. 10, 1978 Report No. CED-78-126 Title

Housing Abandonment: A National Problem Needing New Approaches

Date June 23, 1976 Report No. RED-76-106 Title

Housing: Meeting Application and Review Requirements for Block Grants Under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974

Problems experienced by 23 communities in preparing, and by the Department in reviewing, community development block grant applications during the first program year are discussed in this report. The problems concern insufficient information in the applications and the lack of criteria to help the Department to determine whether the proposed community development and housing programs have been dev...
Date May 20, 1976 Report No. 089591 Title

Government Operations: Survey of UMTA Implementation of the Operating Subsidy Program

UMTED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC DIVISION f Mr. Robert E. Patricelli Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration Department of Transportation Dear Mr. Patricelli: $1 We have been making a survey of the Urban Mass Transit Formula Grant Program authorized by section 5 of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended,...
Date March 8, 1976 Report No. RED-76-77 Title

Government Operations: Review of Rehabilitation Loan Programs in Chicago and San Francisco

-. UNITED STATESGENERALACCCNJNTING OFFICE WAOHiNcXON, US. 2G548 #LQQUnCYB BLWLItPPMtiNT AND KCONQMIC OIVIBIOY MAR8 R-171500 1976 The ilenor able of Housing Development and The Secretary js-g-d Gad?3 Urban GAO has reviewed HUD‘s rehabilits+ion loan programs in to see whether (1) the proqr;ims Chicago and S.n Francisco are reaching property owners of low an.1 moderate incomes and/or limited econom...
Date Feb. 9, 1976 Report No. GGD-76-47 Title

Economic Development: Slow Work Progress in the District of Columbia's 14th Street Urban Renewal Area

COMPTROLLER GENERAL #AfSfINOTON, OF 3’HE UNITCB UC. 208d~ f9tA~E.B llllllllllllllllllllllllIlIll LM099954 D-118638 The Honorable Lawton Cniles Chairman, Subcommittee on the District of Colilmbia Committee on Appropriationa United States Senate Dear recent District Mr. Chairman: to your the I .” pi ‘.!_, ..+3 submitted in response The following information, request, summarizes the results of ...
Date Oct. 29, 1975 Report No. RED-76-37 Title

Housing: Results of the Review of HUD's Management and Disposition of Acquired Multifamily Properties

B-11 4660 The !ionorable ,The Secretary of Bousing I’rban Development and presented on Enclosed is a copy of our testimony Se0tembe-r 23 i 1975, befcre the Subco3niitee on sianpker ar,r? &king, Hcuse Ccmnittee on Government Operations, cn the results of our review of PiCD’s management and disposition of acquired mult ifamii 1T proFerries. O;:r rcviec! show153 the foliowiq weaknesses which indi...
Date April 24, 1975 Report No. RED-75-355 Title

Government Operations: Allegations Concerning the Model Cities Planning Council in Dayton, Ohio

C%3MPYkWQL&ER GENERAL WASHINGTOM. OF THE WHPTED SFATES D.C. 20548 (yvorq B-171500 a Am 2 4 1975 W. Whalen, Jr. The c/ HouseHonorable Charles of Representatives /f ,E Dear Mr. Whalen: t On October 2, 1974, you requested us to review certain allegations concerning the Model Cities Planning Council in Pip, Dayton, Ohio. The specific areas of concern involved in_ --possible violations Urban Developmen...
Date Jan. 1, 1975 Report No. 090906 Title

Housing: How the General Accounting Office Evaluates Urban Housing Policies

Date March 28, 1974 Report No. 089480 Title

Economic Development: Need To Improve Management of Urban Renewal Projects

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHING-KIN, D C 20548 RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC DIVISION MAR 2 8 @fd The Honorable David 0. Meeker, Jr. Asststant Secretary for Community Planning and Development De artment of Housing and Urban Ii evelopment r Dear Mr. Meeker The General Accounting Office has reviewed the administration of the urban renewal program by the Department of Housing and...
Date March 18, 1973 Report No. 094556 Title

Special Publications: Federal Action and the People in Our Cities

Date Feb. 2, 1973 Report No. 093916 Title

Economic Development: Examination Into Selected Aspects of the Neighborhood Development Program

RESOURCES ANU DMELOXv5ENT ECONO?A DIWSION fC lllllllllllllllllllllllllllsllllllllllllllllll LM093916 Dear Mr. Hyde: The General Accounting Office has examined into certain aspects of the Neighborhood Development Program (NDP) administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Our review was primarily directed at ascertaining whether the designated NDP areas would be renewed mor...
Date Jan. 16, 1973 Report No. 093938 Title

Housing: Need for Improvement by HUD in Providing Funds to Local Public Agencies

RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOM OWlSiON 1C Dear Mr Hyde The General Accounting Office is currently examlnlng Into certain aspects of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) admlnlstratlon of the urban renewal program. This review, which 1s being performed at the HUD headquarters In WashIngton, D. C , and the regional and area offices In San Francisco and Los Angeles, Callfornla, B...
Date March 17, 1972 Report No. 092408 Title

Housing: HUD Needs To Establish Guidelines for Shorter Rehabilitation Loan Repayment Periods

Dear Mr. Hyde: Our survey of rehabilitation loan activities carried out under section 31.2 of the Housing Act of 1964, as amended, has shown that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) generally makes such loans for the maximum 20-year period allowable to borrowers who apparently coilld repay their loans over considerably shorter periods. Fle believe tilt there is a need for HUD to ...
Date Feb. 29, 1972 Report No. 092422 Title

Housing: HUD Urban Studies Fellowship Program

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE D.C. 20548 WASHINGTON, CIVIL DIVISION Dear Mr. Jackson: , During our survey of Community Planning and Management programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) we noted certain matters relating to the administration of the Urban Studies Fellowship Program, established under Title VIII of the HUD Act of z 1964, as amended, which we beLiPve ...
Date Jan. 12, 1972 Report No. 092458 Title

Transportation: Urban Mass Transportation Administration's Service Development Program

* CIVIL DIVISION a ?ED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICED.C. 20548 /~~~ ~~WASHINGTON, Dear.Mr. Villarreal: Urban Mass Transportation Administration's We have reviewed the 1 WService Development Progra~ This program is made up of a .44BO Beries of Federal grants to finance projects for developing new bus service between low-income-areas and potential employment locations which were considered inacce...
Date Nov. 19, 1971 Report No. B-174182 Title

Transportation: Progress and Problems of Urban and Transportation Planning

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