Community Development Block Grants Program Offers Recipients Flexibility But Oversight Can Be Improved

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ISBN 13 : 9781422309902
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Community Development Block Grants: Program Offers Recipients Flexibility but Oversight Can Be Improved written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976349867
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Community Development Block Grants written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides funding for housing, economic development, and other community development activities. In fiscal year 2006, Congress appropriated about $4.2 billion for the program. Administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the CDBG program provides funding to metropolitan cities and urban counties, known as entitlement communities, and to states for distribution to nonentitlement communities. This report discusses (1) how recipients use CDBG funds, including the extent to which they comply with spending limits, (2) how HUD monitors recipients' use of CDBG funds, and (3) how HUD holds recipients that have not complied with CDBG program requirements accountable. To address these objectives, we visited 20 recipients, analyzed HUD data, and interviewed HUD staff.

Author : United States. Government Accountability Office
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Total Pages : 67 pages
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Download or read book Community Development Block Grants written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984386878
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Gao-06-732 Community Development Block Grants written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-06-732 Community Development Block Grants: Program Offers Recipients Flexibility but Oversight Can Be Improved

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book The Community Development Block Grant Program Can be More Effective in Revitalizing the Nation's Cities written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Development Block Grant Program allows cities to undertake a wide variety of activities to provide decent housing, jobs, and neighborhoods for their residents. Funds can be used for the acquisition and disposition of property, street improvements, water and sewer facilities, the rehabilitation of private properties, public services and parks, playgrounds, and other recreational facilities. The program's legislative history shows that, while Congress intended communities to have great flexibility in implementing their block grant programs, cities were to design their individual programs within broad national objectives. The lack of limitations on how funds may be used is diluting the program's impact. Cities often spread funds too widely, and rehabilitation funds are spent for questionable purposes and are not always provided to persons with the greatest need. In addition, there is sometimes insufficient information to determine whether funds are properly spent for eligible activities. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has taken several initiatives to encourage better targeting by communities and, in response to past reports of weaknesses in its monitoring of block grant recipients, it has modified its grantee monitoring system. The GAO review raises questions as to whether local flexibility should be tempered with more Federal guidance on the overall limits within which cities can operate their block grant programs.

Author : William B. Shear
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437939805
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Community Development Block Grants written by William B. Shear and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides entitlement communities (metro. cities and urban counties) and states with significant discretion in how they distribute funds for eligible activities. Entitlement communities may use a variety of processes to select individual projects, and states may also use different methods to distribute funds to non-entitlement communities. This report examines: (1) the various methods by which entitlement communities use and distribute their CDBG funds to individual projects within their jurisdictions; (2) the various methods by which states distribute CDBG funds to non-entitlement communities; and (3) HUD¿s role in overseeing these methods. Illus. This is a print on demand publication.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives
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Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Census Data and Its Use in Federal Formula Funding written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9781422398555
Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book Economic Development: Formal Monitoring Approaches Needed to Help Ensure Compliance with Restrictions on Funding Employer Relocations written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Goldenkoff
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437919022
Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book Formula Grants: Census Data are Among Several Factors That Can Affect Funding Allocations written by Robert Goldenkoff and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fed. gov¿t. has annually distributed over $300 billion in fed. assistance through grant programs using formulas driven in part by census population data. The U.S. Census Bureau puts forth tremendous effort to conduct an accurate count of the nation's population, yet some error in the form of persons missed or counted more than once is inevitable. Because many fed. grant programs rely to some degree on population measures, shifts in population, inaccuracies in census counts, and methodological problems with population estimates can all affect the allocation of funds. This testimony discusses: how census data are used in the allocation of fed. formula grant funds; and how the structure of the formulas and other factors can affect those allocations. Illus.

Author : Robert D. Lee Jr.
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0763790729
Total Pages : 722 pages
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Download or read book Public Budgeting Systems written by Robert D. Lee Jr. and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and balanced reference, Public Budgeting Systems, Eighth Edition surveys the current state of budgeting throughout all levels of the United States government. The text emphasizes methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system as well as ways in which different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making. It also stresses the use of program information, since, for decades, budget reforms have sought to introduce greater program considerations into financial decisions. This updated text includes more cases studies and practical information, figures and charts to make the information more accessible, as well as additional student problems. Using this text, students will gain a first-rate understanding of methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system, and how different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making.