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UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
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WASHINGTON, D C 20548
RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC SEP 19 1972
DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Dear Mr Hyde
The General Accounting Office has completed its survey of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) procedures and
practices for providing technical assistance to cities part]cipating
in the Model Cities Program Our survey was made at the HUD New York
Regional Office, and at two model cities--Buffalo, New York, and
Newark, New Jersey--and was directed primarily to examining into the
effectiveness and results of assistance provided City Demonstration
Agencies (CDAs) under technical assistance contracts entered into by
HUD at the headquarters level We also visited the HUD Area Offices
in Buffalo and Newark
On February 23, 1972, we furnished you an interim report on the
results of our examination at the Buffalo CDA In that report, we
recognized that an evaluation of HUD's administration of technical
assistance provided to cities cannot be based on information obtained
primarily from CDA officials at a single location and that we planned
to perform additional field work.
As originally planned, we subsequently visited Newark to continue
our survey and we discussed with Newark CDA officials the type of tech-
nical assistance they received or were receiving under 10 contracts
awarded by HUD
Our work in Newark showed that the basic points included in our
earlier report--relative to technical assistance provided Buffalo--were
also in evidence in Newark These points were that
--regional and area office monitoring of technical assistance
contracts was virtually nonexistent, and
--technical assistance provided by HUD contractors, in some
cases, was limited and/or inadequate
In your May 8, 1972, reply to our report, you said that although
several approaches to evaluate the effectiveness of contract technical
assistance has been tried by HUD, the soundest approach was for Govern-
ment Technical Representatives (GTRs) in Washington, D C , to closely
monitor the activities of HUD contractors in coordination with HUD field](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobacxda0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)