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CED-77-84 1 (1977-06-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaacjl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICTED - Not to be released outside the Ge,eral C - 77- Account:ng Office except on the basis of specific approval OLE 4by the Office of Congressional Relations. -/6~;- r77 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES ---------_____ WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 LM102521 B-171630 JUN 16 1977 The Honorable Robert S. Walker House of Representatives Dear Mr. Walker: In accordance with your request of January 12, 1977, we have reviewed certain aspects of the fair market rents estab- lished by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for new housing units in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. These rents are used in connection with the Department's section 8 leased housing program. We examined the documentation which the Department has to support its determinations that: --Rents charged to tenants in adjacent York County approximate those charged in Lancaster County and, therefore, should be used in Lancaster because specific comparable rents were not available for Lancaster. --York County rents should be increased by 12 percent in computing fair market rents for the Lancaster area. Although not requested to do so, we examined some aspects of the Department's section 8 rental assistance contracts for Lancaster County and elsewhere in eastern Pennsylvania. We examined records and talked to officials at the Department's regional and area office in Philadelphia and at its headquarters office in Washington, D.C. We also talked to officials of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. Additional information was obtained from management personnel of several nonsubsidized apartment projects in the Lancaster area. Our work was confined primarily to a review of the adequacy of documentation which the Department has to support the fair market rent schedules published in the Federal Reg- ister on April 6, 1976, for new construction and substantial rehabilitation in Lancaster County. We made no attempt to examine the leasing of existing housing under the section 8 program. CED-77-84

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