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Public Housing: Partnerships Can Result in Cost Savings and Other Benefits

RCED-97-11 Published: Oct 17, 1996. Publicly Released: Nov 18, 1996.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on partnerships and other business-like arrangements that public housing authorities (PHA) have made with public and private-sector groups to provide residents with needed services and to supplement traditional PHA funding sources, focusing on: (1) four types of such arrangements; and (2) PHA officials' views on the benefits of these arrangements.

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Community development programsCost controlDisadvantaged personsEmployment assistance programsHousing programsIntergovernmental fiscal relationsLow income housingNonprofit organizationsProposed legislationPublic housing