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HUD program, meant to help, actually hurts, IG reports

By Kelly Cohen
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HUD program, meant to help, actually hurts, IG reports

A $353 million effort to help federal officials better manage public housing assistance instead “created further opportunity for fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayer dollars,” according to a government watchdog.

Created in 2007, the Department of Housing and Urban Development‘s Public Housing Operating Fund was meant to help public housing projects manage their assets more effectively, according to HUD’s inspector general.

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