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"Mention the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the word scandal comes to mind. When it comes to recent history, the association is quite accurate; in 1989-90 congressional panels were investigating -abuses, favoritism, and mismanagement- at HUD; in 1954 HUD's predecessor, the Federal Housing Administration, was targeted by the FBI for involvement in fraudulent home-improvement schemes; in the 1970s HUD was scrutinized for lax lending standards, blatant overappraisals, and shoddy housing. In this ground-breaking volume, Irving Welfeld, a senior analyst with HUD, describes and explains these sensational episodes as well as a series of hidden blunders that have cost taxpayers billions of dollars. In this thorough, firsthand account, Welfeld provides not only soundly documented history, but analyses of events that arrive at different interpretations than Congress reached in its investigations. Throughout, his readings ask hard and probing questions: Where were the overseers--the media, Congress, the General Accounting Office, the Office of Management and Budget? To what extent is poor management the root cause of HUD's failures? Will tighter regulation help in keeping out corruption? After his comprehensive survey of the scene, Welfeld goes the final step and offers solutions: a set of programs that would minimize secrecy on the part of federal administrators and the temptation to abuse the public trust. Most importantly, the programs outlined here will enable HUD to more effectively fulfill its mission to see that there is decent affordable housing for all Americans. HUD Scandals will be of interest to scholars of public administration, political scientists, and analysts of housing issues."--Provided by publisher.

Shipping list no.: 94-0122-P. ; "Presidential performance agreement, Reorganization, Strategic performance system, HUD-community partnership." ; Cover title. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters located in Washington, D.C. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 created the Housing and Urban Development agency, or HUD under President Lyndon Johnson. The HUD headquarters is located in the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building which has a unique architectural design. Seen from an aerial view, the 10-story office building forms an elongated X-shape. The building is an example of Brutalist architecture, popular in mid 20th century. The building was designed by Marcel Breuer and was completed in 1968. ; https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1361/thumbnail.jpg

Preservation of HUD-assisted housing / Maggie McCarty, Libby Perl -- Testimony of Tammye Trevino, Administrator, Rural Housing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity -- Statement of Toby Halliday, Vice President, National Housing Trust, before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity -- Statement of Ricky Leung, Treasurer, National Alliance of HUD tenants, before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, hearing on "affordable housing preservation and protection of tenants" -- Testimony of the Institute for Responsible Housing Preservation, presented by Sarah Metherell, Vice President, Steadfast companies, before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, hearing on "affordable housing preservation and protection of tenants

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Gun Buyback Violence Reduction Initiative, focusing on whether HUD: (1) may use funds appropriated for the Public Housing Drug Elimination Grants Program (PHDEG) for gun buyback programs; and (2) has used PHDEG funds for that purpose. GAO noted that HUD would need additional authority to use appropriated funds to support the gun buyback program. In addition, HUD nor GAO has identified any other HUD appropriation that would be available to pay for the gun buyback program."

Revised by updated sheets. ; "Housing production and mortgage credit-Federal Housing Administration". ; Mode of access: Internet.

We describe two experiments that examine 3D pathway displays in a head-up location for aircraft landing and taxi. We address both guidance performance and pilot strategies in dividing, focusing, and allocating attention between flight path information and event monitoring. In Experiment 1 the 3D pathway head-up display (HUD) was compared with a conventional 2D HUD. The former was found to produce better guidance, with few costs to event detection. Some evidence was provided that attentional tunneling of the pathway HUD inhibits the detection of unexpected traffic events. In Experiment 2, the pathway display was compared in a head-up versus a head-down location. Excellent guidance was achieved in both locations. A slight HUD cost for vertical tracking in the air was offset by a HUD benefit for event detection and for lateral tracking during taxi (i.e., on the ground). The results of both experiments are interpreted within the framework of object- and space-based theories of visual attention and point to the conclusion that pathway HUDs combine the independent advantages of pathways and HUDs, particularly during ground operations. Actual or potential applications include understanding the costs and benefits of positioning a 3D pathway display