Inadequate Relocation Assistance to Families Displaced From Certain Urban Renewal Projects in Kansas and Missouri

GAO's review of the relocation of families displaced from selected urban renewal projects administered by the Fort Worth regional office, Housing and Home Finance Agency; GAO noted that a significant number of the families displaced from urban renewal projects in St. Louis, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, were relocated into substandard housing and that a substantial number of the families displaced in these cities and in Columbia, Missouri, were not afforded relocation assistance. GAO believes that the regional office's supervision and review of relocation activities of local public agencies were not adequate to fulfill the intent of title I of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, that displaced families be afforded an opportunity to relocate into decent, safe and sanitary housing.