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093052 1 (1970-10-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwyg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 CIVIL DIVISION OCT 191970 111111111111111II(I I 11 11(11 11 111 I111i11111111 LM093052 Dear Mr. Jackson: The General Accounting Office has examined into the administration of the Workable Program for Community Improvement (workable program) by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Our review was made pursuant to the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (31 U.S.C. 53), and the Housing Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 1435). This review was performed concurrently with our review-and report to the Congress on Opportunity to Improve Allocation of Program Funds to Better Meet the National Housing-Goal (B-118754, dated October 2, 1970). The matters discussed in this letter report are primarily administrative in nature and were not included in our report to the Congress. The objective of our review was to determine the extent to which HUD used the workable program requirement to encourage cities to identify and attempt to alleviate their problems of blight and deteri- oration on a continuing basis. Our review included workable programs of five cities located in three HUD regions. Four cities--Detroit, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia; Wichita, Kansas; Tulsa, Oklahoma--were selected on the basis of having significant amounts of HUD financial assistance. The fifth city--Omaha, Nebraska--was selected on the basis of very limited HUD financial assistance to determine the con- sistency of HUD's administration of workable programs. During our review, we examined applicable Federal statutes, HUD - regulations, HUD and city policies and practices, pertinent files, and interviewed local, regional, and departmental personnel. Our work was performed at the HUD Central Office in Washington, D.C.; at HUD Regional Offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; and Fort Worth, Texas; and at the five selected cities within the'administrative jurisdiction of these three offices. The need for assurance that HUD's administration of workable pro- grams provide meaningful analyses of cities' self-help programs was the subject of a previous report to the Congress on Review of Selected Phases of Workable Programs for Community Improvement Under the Adminis- tration of the Fort Worth Regional Office, Housing and Home Finance Agency (B-118754, dated December 17, 1962). In that report we suggested

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