Based on data developed by Abt Associates under contract to BUD, over half of public housing households now live in projects that need moderate to substantial rehabilitation just to meet HUDs mandatory standards for modernization This is despite the fact that the Federal Government had already allocated over $5 billion to public housing modernization between 1980 and the date of the Abt inspections in 1985

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