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Public Housing

The public housing program provides formula grants to State and local public housing agencies to support public housing. It assists 1.1 million low-income households (2.6 million people). The Federal grants pay the costs that are not paid by tenant rents, which are generally set at 30 percent of income.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program's purpose in delivering housing is clear; however, the role of public housing in promoting progress toward self-sufficiency is less clear.
  • The design of the program is overly perscriptive and lacks incentives for tenants and local management to maximize dollars spent. Costs are paid by the Federal government (no cost share with State/locals) by formula.
  • The program lacks efficiency measures and ambitious targets, timeframes, and outcome measures for the well being of assisted families.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Simplifying the detailed, complex, and perscriptive regulations and statutes in order to improve management and performance.
  • Implementing project-based accounting to improve local management decisions on project management.
  • Setting ambitious targets, timeframes, and outcome measures to improve the well being of assisted families.

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