Acquisition of the Coventry Site by the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority Appears To Be Proper

A Virginia Congressman requested that GAO review the purchase of a public housing site in Fairfax, Virginia, by the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RHA). The objective of the review was to ascertain whether RHA had used Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds to purchase the site. If RHA used HUD funds to acquire the property, then it was guilty of a breach of its annual contributions contract with HUD since HUD had not authorized the acquisition.