Analysis of HUD Efforts To Alleviate Housing Abandonment

GAO analyzed responses to a congressional inquiry concerning housing abandonment and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) efforts to alleviate the problem. The questions and the HUD response focused on the following subject areas: (1) strategies for alleviating housing abandonment, (2) laws and regulations which impede solutions to the abandonment problem, (3) impact of HUD programs on housing abandonment, and (4) squatters in HUD-owned houses. The review was performed at HUD headquarters and in the HUD office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.