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Assisted Housing: Evening Out the Growth of the Section 8 Program's Funding Needs

RCED-93-54 Published: Aug 05, 1993. Publicly Released: Aug 05, 1993.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the estimated costs of contract renewals for the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) section 8 rental assistance program, focusing on: (1) the additional budget authority needed to renew expiring contracts; (2) ways to even-out the growth in budget authority for contract renewals; and (3) the relationship between budget authority needs to fund contract amendments and budget authority needs to renew expiring contracts.

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Budget authorityContract extensionsFederal aid for housingFuture budget projectionsHousing programsLow income housingManagement information systemsPublic housingRent subsidiesRental housing