In response to a report from the U.S. House of Representatives, the Government Accountability Office compiled information on Department Housing and Urban Development capital advances for the Section 202 and Section 811 programs from 2008 to 2013. The report provides a comprehensive accounting of the number and amounts received by each state, but does not make any recommendations.
According to the report, HUD used a two-phase process to allocate and award capital advances for Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly (Section 202) and Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (Section 811) until Congress stopped appropriating funding for capital advances for these programs in 2012.
The report looks at how HUD determined the capital advance amounts award to sponsors and the number of capital advance awards and amounts by state for FY 2008 to FY 2012. HUD found that for the award amounts varied significantly by state, especially after HUD in 2010 removed the set-aside that had guaranteed a minimum amount of funding for each of its local field offices. For Section 202, total capital advance amounts for fiscal years 2008-2011 for states that received at least one award ranged from less than $24 million to more than $75 million. For Section 811, total capital advance amounts for fiscal years 2008-2011 for states that received at least one capital advance award ranged from less than $4 million to more than $15 million. While some states did not receive any awards, others received more than 10.
