Plan Sets Forth HUD's Goals

Fiscal Year 2001 Annual Performance Plan, submitted by HUD to Congress earlier this year, corresponds to the budget resources in HUD's FY 2001 budget request. It documents how HUD is measuring progress toward achieving its critical mission: to promote adequate and affordable housing, economic opportunity, and a suitable living environment free from discrimination.

Good housing and safe communities are vital to the well-being of every American. Expenditures on housing and utilities comprise 18 percent of personal expenses, and investment and other expenditures of housing make up almost 10 percent of the American economy. By working with partners in the public and private sectors, community groups, and families and individuals—and by carefully leveraging social and financial resources—HUD has an impact on America's communities that is far greater than its $32 billion budget might imply.

The Fiscal Year 2001 Annual Performance Plan contains five reformulated, targeted strategic goals to:

• Increase the availability of decent, safe, and affordable housing in American communities.

• Ensure equal opportunity in housing for all Americans.

• Promote self-sufficiency and asset development of families and individuals.

• Improve community quality of life and economic vitality.

• Ensure public trust in HUD.

The document also cites key external factors, such as macroeconomic conditions, consumer confidence, policy discretion by local jurisdictions, mortgage interest rates, and tax policies, that affect those outcomes but are beyond HUD's control.

Fiscal Year 2001 Annual Performance Plan is available free from HUD USER. Use the order form.