authorities, state and local governments, and nonprofits. For HUD, business as usual focused on the financials. The primary concern of each program office was getting the money to their grantees. (Program offices are similar to agencies within other federal Departments.) Each program office operated in its own silo and gave limited attention to how the other programs contributed to the overall mission. However, that way of doing business would be challenged by the passage of the Recovery Act. The…
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