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RCED-94-235R 1 (1994-06-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackpe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO LUj c , @ LJ - - c United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-257435 June 3, 1994 The Honorable Joseph M. McDade Ranking Minority Member Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Dear Mr. McDade: This correspondence responds to your May 4, 1994, request that we identify performance standards for the District of Columbia's Department of Public and Assisted Housing (DPAH). Because of your desire to incorporate such standards into the District's fiscal year 1995 appropriations bill--a bill which the Subcommittee plans to mark up within the next few weeks--we agreed with your office to determine whether the performance indicators already being used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) could also be used by the Subcommittee to track DPAH's performance. HUD currently uses a set of 12 indicators as part of its Public Housing Management Assessment Program for tracking the performance of all public housing authorities. To determine the applicability of HUD's public housing performance indicators to DPAH given the management and performance problems DPAH is currently experiencing, we consulted with persons with a wide range of experience and expertise in the field of managing public housing authorities. These persons included officials from HUD and HUD's Office of Inspector General, the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, the Council of Large Public Housing Agencies, and the Public Housing Authorities Directors Association, as well as the Special Master appointed by the D.C. Superior Court to investigate DPAH's operations. In summary, on the basis of our discussions with these officials, we believe that 6 of HUD's 12 indicators could best assist the Subcommittee in measuring DPAH's performance. These indicators include vacancy rates, rent GAOIRCED-94-235R, District of Columbia Public Housing

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