Keynote: Northwest/Cascade Chapter NAHRO. Conference in Bend, Sept 11-13

Not yet quite sure what I will say, but not to worry, there are also lots of other interesting topics for this upcoming Bend NW/Cascade Chapter of NAHRO conference.   

Flyer, including registration information and planned breakout sessions, is HERE.  

Shameless organization promotion: the Housing Development Center, will also be conducting asset management training at this conference. [ I am HDC Board member].

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Key Indicators of Well Being of Children Report, 2011.

Report is HERE, housing data is found on printed page 32. (Missed opportunity to include data on counts and percentages of children in poverty served by HUD rental programs, IMHO).

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Improper Payments Comparisons FY 2010; HUD Improper Rental Assistance Payments and Rates Were Far Less than for Key Medical/Food Programs.

The administration has a reduction of improper payments initiative underway that includes a data set of improper payments by agency and program that can be found HERE.

I went in and dug out some data for FY 2010 for some select programs including HUD Public Housing and Rental Assistance programs . This includes public housing, project based, and voucher based rental assistance outlays of $30.015 Billion. 

I prepared two graphs HERE that show the improper payment percentage and dollars for these select programs. 

Some observations:

The improper payment percentage for HUD was 3.1%, or $925 million spent improperly (of $30.015 billion in outlays). HUD's percentage and $$ improperly spent was substantially lower than other well known programs:

• The combined improper payment rate for 3 medical programs [ Medicare Advantage, Medicare fee for service, and Medicaid] was 10.6%, with $70.4 billion spent improperly.
• The combined improper payments rate for 3 food programs [SNAP/"Food Stamps", School Breakfast, and School Lunch] was 6.9%, with $4.278 billion spent improperly in FY 2010.
• The improper payment rate for 3 medical programs was 345% of the HUD rate [245% higher], and the improper payment rate for 3 food programs was 225% of the HUD rate [125% higher].
• The amount of improper payments for 3 medical programs was 76.15 times the amount of HUD improper payments and for 3 food programs the improper amount was 4.63 times the HUD amount.

Note: HUD's 3.1% improper spending rate included 1% that was under spent [payments were lower than they should have been] so FY 2010 net overspending was 2.1% or $630.2 million instead of $925 million; breakouts of under and overspending was not available for all programs so comparisons on net overspending between programs was not possible.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.