Department of Housing and Urban Development Could Be Streamlined

Gao ID: FPCD-77-56 June 16, 1977

Streamlining the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) organization through consolidating field offices and realining selected regional and field office functions could improve its delivery of services to the public at reduced costs.

Streamlining the HUD organization could improve services to the public and save money by reducing the resources needed to provide the services. It would also reduce the potential for duplicate work and fragmented authority and responsibility which have been problems in the past. This streamlining can be accomplished by reducing the number of field offices and requiring field offices and regional offices to operate selected dissimilar programs, with both reporting to the central office, or by requiring field offices to operate all programs now being done by both field and regional offices.

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