United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1997-01-29 monographic deposited born digital 65 p. GA 1.13:RCED-97-27 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-27 P0b002ee1803862ef f:rc97027 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-27 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-27 RCED-97-27 Public housing Technical assistance Local governments Federal agency reorganization Federal property management Housing programs Audits HUD Public Housing Management Assessment Program HUD System for Management Information Retrieval-Public Housing Data Base Birmingham (AL) Kansas City (MO) Minneapolis (MN) San Antonio (TX) San Francisco (CA) Chapter Report RCED The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is responsible for ensuring that the 3,000 independent, state-chartered public housing authorities provide safe and decent housing and protect the federal investment in their properties. However, the public housing management assessment program--HUD's primary tool for measuring the performance of housing authorities--has been criticized as unreliable, inaccurate, and at times conflicting with good property management practices. Nevertheless, because no other measurement tool exists, Congress and HUD have proposed using the program as a basis for deregulating or rewarding high-scoring housing authorities. This report reviews HUD's implementation of the program. GAO discusses whether (1) HUD's field offices are using the program and complying with the program's statutory and regulatory requirements to monitor and provide technical assistance to housing authorities; (2) program scores have increased and how HUD uses the program to inform HUD's Secretary and Congress about the performance of housing authorities; and (3) program scores are consistently accurate and can be considered a generally accepted measure of good property management. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-27/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-27.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-27/pdf/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-27.pdf GAO/RCED-97-27 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-27 Chapter Report GAO/RCED-97-27; Public Housing: HUD Should Improve the Usefulness and Accuracy of Its Management Assessment Program; Public housing Technical assistance Local governments Federal agency reorganization Federal property management Housing programs Audits HUD Public Housing Management Assessment Program HUD System for Management Information Retrieval-Public Housing Data Base Birmingham (AL) Kansas City (MO) Minneapolis (MN) San Antonio (TX) San Francisco (CA) Public Law 101-625