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State Department: Standards for Overseas Housing Need Review
GAO-26-107965
Aug 10, 2026
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations reviews and updates, as applicable, State's maximum housing space standards for overseas Foreign Service personnel to ensure the standards are comparable to the current economic conditions in the Washington, D.C., area. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director of the bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations reviews and updates, as applicable, State's method for measuring housing space overseas to align with domestic industry standards for measuring housing space in the Washington, D.C., area. (Recommendation 2)
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Rural Housing: Weaknesses in Data Quality and Use Limit HUD’s Ability to Assess Effectiveness of Service Coordinators
GAO-26-107802
Jun 01, 2026
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Housing develops and uses uniform procedures for entering data into iREMS that improve the quality of information on budget-funded service coordinators. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Housing establishes a process to use the performance information collected for the Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing Program to analyze program outcomes. (Recommendation 2)
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Veteran Homelessness Programs: Opportunities to Improve Data Collection and Establish an Evaluation Plan
GAO-26-107517
Mar 30, 2026
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the Senior Executive Director of the Homeless Programs Office develops a method for requiring VAMCs to collect data on the reasons eligible veterans were not referred to HUD-VASH, including when veterans are not referred due to insufficient case management capacity, and use these data, as appropriate, to inform staffing assessments. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Native American Programs clearly define its objectives for the Tribal HUD-VASH pilot program and how it will measure progress toward them and develop and implement a data collection and analysis plan for evaluating the program. The plan should include how lessons learned will inform decisions on scalability or integrating pilot activities into overall efforts. (Recommendation 2)
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Homelessness: Agency Actions Could Improve Data on Shelter Program Use
GAO-26-107502
Jan 22, 2026
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should increase the transparency of HUD's usability determinations by adopting clear criteria for how data quality flags should be applied in those decisions. To the extent that subjective judgment is used, HUD should document the reasons for its decisions. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should reevaluate the statistical methods used to estimate shelter use to assess whether alternative imputation methods could more accurately reflect the uncertainty of its estimates. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should communicate the rationales for HUD's usability determinations to Continuums of Care, such as by providing information on which data quality flags are considered higher or lower priority. (Recommendation 3)
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