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June
6, 2003
 PUBLIC
HOUSING OPERATING COST STUDY
STUDY HARVARD
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Final Report
Nationally, there
are approximately 1.2 million units of public housing,
administered by nearly 3,200 public housing authorities (PHAs).
Total operating expenses run about $5.8 billion annually, of which
$3.5 billion is funded through federal operating subsidies and the
remainder is covered by rental income.
When Congress
passed the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act (QHWRA) in
1997, it called for the establishment of two new funds for public
housing; a Capital Fund and an Operating Fund; that would
replace, respectively, the Comprehensive Grant Program (CGP) and
the Performance Funding System (PFS). Congress then directed HUD
to initiate negotiated rulemaking with affected industry groups in
order to determine how the monies from those funds would be
distributed.
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