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CED-82-31 1 (1982-01-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcut0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE 1 ~q WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 January 8, 1982 OMMUNtTY AND ECONOMIC DEVC.OPMEN4 DIVISION B-206027 RELEASED RESTRICTED Ou reload?4 O-tside th Gen# A c... • : . ...... of specafic approval by the Office of Q .essio , i ..t4ojj The Honorable Jake Garn Chairman, Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies I 1t Committee on Appropriations United States Senate111111 117294 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Contributing Causes of Financial and Management Problems in Public Housing Projects (CED-82-31) In accordance with your September 1, 1981, request and subsequent discussions with your office, we have examined whether there are common denominators that may help explain causes of financial and management problems in lower income public housing projects. As your office requested, we focused on two areas affecting public housing operations: (1) the high density of projects and tenants within a given geographic area and (2) the size of the managing entity. Our objective was to determine whether these two factors have influenced financial and management problems more than other factors.. As your office requested, our work was based primarily on reports relating to public housing problems that have been issued by us and other private and public organizations. We solicited views and reviewed published materials from the Congressional Budget Office, the Congressional Research Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (BUD), the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials the Public Housing Author- ities Directors Association, and the Urban Institute. Enclosure I lists the reference materials used in preparing this report. As agreed, the views and data published by other organizations were accepted as presented without further analysis by us. Basically, we found that many factors, including project and tenant density and size of management entity, influence public housing operations. The high density of projects and tenants and management size do not appear to be any more important than other factors in causing public housing problems. Following is a sum- mary of the impact that project and tenant density and management size have on public housing operations and a discussion of other factors, such as financial and social and neighborhood problems, that also affect public housing operations. (383224)

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