Major staffing reductions and funding cuts at the Department of Housing and Urban Development last year resulted in an exodus of veteran employees and broad deterioration in HUD programs and services, according to newly released audit findings.
Nearly 3 in 10 employees working at the cabinet-level agency at the outset of 2025 were gone by the end of the year, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which audited HUD in response to concerns raised by Democratic lawmakers related to the department’s rollback of fair housing enforcement.
HUD saw its workforce shrink from more than 8,800 workers to about 6,300 during that time. Nearly 3,200 workers separated from the agency, compared to just 193 hires.
Almost three-quarters of ...
