Rural Housing Service: Overview of Program Issues
GAO-05-382T
Published: Mar 10, 2005. Publicly Released: Mar 10, 2005.
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The rural America of 2005 is far different from the rural America of the 1930s, when the federal government first began to provide housing assistance to rural residents. Advances in transportation, computer technology, and telecommunications, along with the spread of suburbia, have linked many rural areas to urban areas. These changes, along with new fiscal and budget realities, raise questions about how Rural Housing Service (RHS) programs could most effectively and efficiently serve rural America.
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