Summary

This testimony offers GAO's analysis as comments as part of the fiscal year 1995 appropriations hearing for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Faced with an increasingly limited budget and seemingly endless demand for its resources, HUD is scrutinizing the way it works so that it can do more with less. HUD's effort is two-pronged: the Department is totally reorganizing to improve its delivery of services at the same time it is "reinventing itself"--examining the emphasis of its programs, its priorities, and its way of doing business. The outcome of these efforts will have a major impact on the appropriations HUD seeks. This testimony identifies a number of issues in need of further study or resolution in HUD's management of either specific programs or large parts of its budget.