Weaknesses in the Planning and Utilization of Rental Housing for Persons in Wheelchairs
CED-81-45
Published: Jun 19, 1981. Publicly Released: Jun 19, 1981.
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Highlights
GAO reviewed Federal efforts to provide housing designed especially for the needs of people who use wheelchairs to determine whether the Departments of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) goals to produce wheelchair-accessible housing units were reasonable and being complied with and if people in wheelchairs were occupying the special housing units.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should require project managers to give persons who use wheelchairs priority for the accessible units. One way of accomplishing this is to require project managers to maintain separate waiting lists for the accessible units and give people in wheelchairs priority regardless of when they apply for admission. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should require project managers to give persons who use wheelchairs priority for the accessible units. One way of accomplishing this is to require project managers to maintain separate waiting lists for the accessible units and give people in wheelchairs priority regardless of when they apply for admission. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should establish procedures for project managers to use to advertise the availability of accessible units and rental assistance, including contacting public and private organizations serving people in wheelchairs to obtain greater participation of people who use wheelchairs. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should establish procedures for project managers to use to advertise the availability of accessible units and rental assistance, including contacting public and private organizations serving people in wheelchairs to obtain greater participation of people who use wheelchairs. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should identify those elderly projects which do not admit nonelderly disabled persons or which require persons to live totally independent and notify the project sponsors that the restrictions must be removed. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should identify those elderly projects which do not admit nonelderly disabled persons or which require persons to live totally independent and notify the project sponsors that the restrictions must be removed. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD, HHS, Agriculture, and Education should work with State and local social service and welfare organizations to coordinate housing with the other services people in wheelchairs need. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Education | The Secretaries of HUD, HHS, Agriculture, and Education should work with State and local social service and welfare organizations to coordinate housing with the other services people in wheelchairs need. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD, HHS, Agriculture, and Education should work with State and local social service and welfare organizations to coordinate housing with the other services people in wheelchairs need. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Health and Human Services | The Secretaries of HUD, HHS, Agriculture, and Education should work with State and local social service and welfare organizations to coordinate housing with the other services people in wheelchairs need. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should require that the Annual Housing Survey be used periodically to gather data relating to people in wheelchairs, such as the total number in the United States and their geographic location, age, income, family size, and need for federally subsidized housing. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should require that the Annual Housing Survey be used periodically to gather data relating to people in wheelchairs, such as the total number in the United States and their geographic location, age, income, family size, and need for federally subsidized housing. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should eliminate the nationwide 5 and 10 percent goals and establish geographical (e.g., local or regional) goals for constructing accessible units in family and elderly projects. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should eliminate the nationwide 5 and 10 percent goals and establish geographical (e.g., local or regional) goals for constructing accessible units in family and elderly projects. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should, in approving projects, determine whether the geographical goals as established are realistic by doing a market analysis of the demand for accessible units in each project. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should, in approving projects, determine whether the geographical goals as established are realistic by doing a market analysis of the demand for accessible units in each project. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should establish adequate criteria for project sponsors to use to implement the goal for constructing accessible units in family projects. Such criteria should include guidance on the type of unit (accessible or other), number of bedrooms in the unit, and under what circumstances exceptions will be allowed. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should establish adequate criteria for project sponsors to use to implement the goal for constructing accessible units in family projects. Such criteria should include guidance on the type of unit (accessible or other), number of bedrooms in the unit, and under what circumstances exceptions will be allowed. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should have their management information systems compile data on the number of accessible units constructed and the number and characteristics such as the age, income, family size, and rent paid by the people in wheelchairs living in assisted units. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should have their management information systems compile data on the number of accessible units constructed and the number and characteristics such as the age, income, family size, and rent paid by the people in wheelchairs living in assisted units. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Agriculture | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should periodically compile directories of projects with assisted accessible housing units which contain information on location, number of bedrooms, rental costs, services available, and availability for occupancy and disseminate the directories to organizations serving people who use wheelchairs so they can assist people seeking this type of housing. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development | The Secretaries of HUD and Agriculture should periodically compile directories of projects with assisted accessible housing units which contain information on location, number of bedrooms, rental costs, services available, and availability for occupancy and disseminate the directories to organizations serving people who use wheelchairs so they can assist people seeking this type of housing. |
Closed
GAO has no information on the actions taken in response to this recommendation.
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