Annual Public Housing Inspections Accountability Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Annual Public Housing Inspections Accountability Act directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Comptroller General to conduct a joint study and report to Congress within one year. The report must count the HUD-required inspections left incomplete during the one-year study period and estimate how many inspectors are needed to complete every required inspection each year.
The bill does not itself hire inspectors, appropriate funding, change inspection standards, or order a particular staffing level. It creates an evidence and reporting requirement for later congressional or administrative decisions.
Who Benefits and How
Public-housing residents benefit from congressional visibility into missed inspections and potential staffing shortages. Public housing agencies and HUD inspection managers gain a quantified estimate of the workforce needed for annual completion. Congressional housing committees receive data for oversight and future funding or staffing decisions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HUD inspection-program staff must compile records on required and incomplete inspections and help estimate staffing needs. Government Accountability Office analysts must validate the data, perform the workforce analysis, and produce the report within one year. HUD data officers and public-housing inspection managers may need to reconcile incomplete or inconsistent inspection records. Federal oversight accounts bear the study cost.
Key Provisions
- Requires HUD and GAO to conduct a public-housing inspection study.
- Identifies the number of required inspections left incomplete during one year.
- Estimates the number of inspectors needed for annual completion.
- Directs submission of the findings to Congress within one year.
- Provides information for oversight without directly hiring inspectors.
- Does not appropriate new inspection funding or change inspection standards.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires HUD and the Government Accountability Office to report within one year on incomplete federally required public-housing inspections and the number of inspectors needed to complete all required inspections annually.
Key Policy Areas
Public Housing, Housing Inspections, Federal Workforce, Congressional Oversight
Primary Purpose
Requires HUD and the Government Accountability Office to report within one year on incomplete federally required public-housing inspections and the number of inspectors needed to complete all required inspections annually.
Policy Domains
Section 2 public-housing inspection staffing study
Identified Gains
- Public-housing residents
- Public housing agencies
- HUD housing-inspection managers
- Congressional housing committees
Identified Costs
- HUD inspection-program staff
- Government Accountability Office analysts
- HUD inspection-data officers
- Public-housing inspection managers supplying records
- Federal housing-oversight accounts
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Introduced in House
Mr. Lawler introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congressional housing committees, Government Accountability Office analysts, HUD inspection-data officers
Positive-direction: Congressional housing committees
Negative-direction: Government Accountability Office analysts, HUD inspection-data officers, HUD inspection-program staff
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "congress"
- → Congress receiving the study report
- "hud_secretary"
- → Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- "comptroller_general"
- → Comptroller General of the United States
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The number of HUD-required inspections not completed during the one-year study period.
The estimated inspector workforce required to complete every HUD-required inspection each year.
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