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1 Introduction
Pages 5-10

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From page 5...
... and its current research plan. The committee was charged to "provide HUD and the Congress with a set of options and recommendations for Congress to consider regarding the future course of research needed to address future technology, engineering, social, or economic issues" (U.S.
From page 6...
... The National Research Council is directed to provide a report to the House and Senate Commit tees on Appropriations, prior to the submission of the President's FY2007 budget request that reviews current research priorities and makes recom mendations on a new course of research for HUD. The Report should include specific recommendations and should examine the elimination of an in house research office, if the Council sees no long-term value to HUD specific research or that HUD related research can or should be done by other Departments.
From page 7...
... The housing assistance programs that existed in 1965 have either been repealed or substantially changed; public housing and subsidized housing construction programs have been largely replaced by housing demand subsidies to allow low-income tenants to choose their own housing. Federal urban renewal programs have been completely replaced by locally sponsored development activities financed by partnerships between federal and local agencies.
From page 8...
... The committee spoke to individuals who formerly held critical positions within HUD, experienced congressional staff members, and various long-time users of HUD data and reports. Finally, the committee included former PD&R assistant secretaries and deputy assistant secretaries from both Republican and ­Democratic administrations, as well as former visiting scholars whose combined personal experience at HUD extends for well over half the history of the office.
From page 9...
... discuss the research and policy development activities by function, with separate chapters on policy development, internal research, external research, technology research, data collection, and dissemination. The committee's distinction between external research, internal research, and policy development is useful analytically but a somewhat artificial distinction: in practice, the data collection, internal research, external research, and policy development functions continually overlap and feed into each other.


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