Two HUD Programs Make Top 10 List of Federal Assistance Programs.

New GAO report HERE discusses the factors used to allocate funding for the top 10 largest federal assistance programs. For 2008 those programs and obligation amounts included two HUD programs

1. Housing Choice Vouchers and
2. The combined Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)/and Neighborhood Stabilization Programs (NSP).

Program	Amount obligated
Medicaid	$214.0
Highway Planning and Construction	37.4
TANF	17.0
Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers	15.6
Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies	13.9
IDEA Part B	11.0
Federal Transit Formula Grants Programs	8.2
Head Start	6.9
CHIP	6.0
CDBG and Neighborhood Stabilization Program	4.9
Total	$334.9

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.