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About This Report
This Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Annual Performance Report (APR) and FY 2016 Annual Performance Plan (APP)
for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides detailed performance-related
information to the President, the Congress, and the American people. The report allows readers to assess
HUD’s FY 2014 performance, revisions to goals for FY 2015, and plans for FY 2016 relative to its mission and
stewardship of public resources. This report consists of several important sections:
Agency and Mission
This section contains HUD’s mission statements, its vision, organizational structure, and scope of
responsibilities, as well as an introductory message from the HUD Secretary, Julián Castro, in which he
highlights key FY 2014 program accomplishments and policy priorities going forward.
Strategic Goals and Strategic Objectives
This section contains HUD’s strategic framework, as established in the HUD Strategic Plan FY 2014-2018. It is
comprised of four overarching strategic goals and 12 strategic objectives which help frame HUD’s discussion
of its performance targets and associated priorities. The majority of this APP-APR is organized by strategic
objective. Strategic objectives are intended to reflect the outcome or management impact an agency is trying
to achieve. Each objective will be tracked annually through a specific set of performance indicators. In addition,
HUD’s strategic framework contains eight management objectives that are intended to improve departmental
operations.
Please note that Agency Priority Goals (or APGs) are denoted by a throughout this document. Each agency
is responsible for identifying a limited number of performance goals that are high priorities over a two-year
period. These APGs support improvements in near-term outcomes, customer service, or efficiencies, and
advance progress toward longer-term, outcome-focused strategic goals and objectives in an agency’s Strategic
Plan. Thus, while strategic objectives are evaluated annually and focus on longer-term performance goals,
Agency Priority Goals are evaluated quarterly and focus on near-term results.
For each strategic goal, we have included its associated strategic objectives, an overview of the problem(s)
HUD is attempting to address through these objectives, strategies for achieving the objectives, goal leaders,
major milestones, and performance indicators to track our progress. HUD’s APGs were established in FY 2014
to cover a two-year performance period (FY 2014-2015). Thus, in this consolidated FY 2014 APR and FY 2016
APP, we present to readers a synopsis of our current progress toward the FY 2014-2015 APGs targets.
For most indicators, HUD has committed targets for FY 2014 and FY 2015 which will enable us to track our
performance in the next two years. For some indicators, we are still gathering data to establish baselines
and preparing to set targets in future years. These new metrics are indicated with the phrases “Establish
Baseline” and “Target TBD” in the relevant tables. A third category of indicators, marked as “Tracking Only,”
provide information about program operations or external conditions but will generally not have targets. For
these indicators, targets would be difficult to establish, would not provide meaningful indications of agency
performance expectations, and/or could create unintended incentives for program staff and our partners.
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