New Face for the HUD
By admin | June 7, 2007
New face for the HUD is sought in bringing about change to the housing industry. Since 1986 the total number of employees has shrunk by 1,400 and those that are left speak of lack of leadership and vision.
“Eighty percent of us came to work for HUD because of the mission. We’re not satisfied with mediocrity,” said Federoff, who is president of Council 222 of the American Federation of Government Employees (AGFE). “It is not pleasant to come to work and have to face customers with legitimate requests and legitimate needs, and be the front line for HUD’s endless excuses.”
Many of the individual agencies that have worked in cooperation site competitive tendencies when working together with the HUD,
“They did not want to be our partner. They treated us like the enemy,” the former director said.
Even housing developers don’t feel the desire to work the HUD anymore due to the cost and the overall irritation it causes.
“HUD has become such an entrenched bureaucracy that it is no longer effective and cannot be fixed. The cost of dealing with HUD has reached the point it where it just isn’t worth it anymore,” said a senior executive of a private housing development and management firm who has worked with FHA programs, including the Sec. 236 program, since 1975.
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