The report on the funding formula for housing assistance for people living with HIV provides an insight on the lapses in which the government allocates the funds. The reliance on the data provided by HOPWA is not an accurate reflection of the situation in the country. Therefore, relying on the data could lead to the misappropriation of the data because it would advocate inequality in the allocation of the funds. The provision of the funding is essential because it helps the people living with the HIV access medical care. Research indicated signs of difficulties for the people living with the virus to access the care they needed especially if they lacked the housing facilities. Therefore, to increase the life expectancy among the people with HIV, it was necessary to provide the housing facilities (GOA, 12).
It is essential to highlight the weaknesses of the firms obligated to provide the correct data with persons living with HIV. It is however notable that, not all people with the virus have challenges in accessing housing facilities. Therefore, there was need to establish the needy people who lived in the shacks and deplorable conditions because they deprived them of the social amenities and access to the medical care. Due to the hitches, it was not advisable to rely on the report because it generalized the data in that it did not dig dipper to know the needy people. For the housing plan to become helpful and fruitful in the U.S, the government had the obligation to initiate a reliable firm that would provide consistent and reliable data.
According to GOA (35), the report does not also indicate the oversight body that would manage the utilization of the funds given. Therefore, it provided several loopholes that would encourage corruption in the people given the responsibility to manage the funds. However, the GOA realized the ineffective ways that the firms involved provided the data of the people living with the HIV. Therefore, the need to revise it showed that the government was keen to determine the different ways in which the data would be a representative of the whole population. Leaving out some people living with the virus harbored a lot of hatred towards the government. As a result, the victims felt like aliens in their country thereby hindering the development of self-belonging. On the other hand, the exclusion of the victims from benefiting from the housing assistance depicted the high levels of discrimination in the country.
The format of the report generated contained some inconsistencies due to the failure to show that exact number of people that data provided. Therefore, it lacked credibility because no one would know that areas neglected in the data collection. However, the recommendation provided were adequate because they insisted on the need to have the formula for identifying the people revised. The recommendations also highlighted the ones that needed the executive to work on and the one that needed the congressional debate. The subdivision of the recommendations helped to save time due to the directions given (GOA, 58).
The most important parts for a high-level government official were the recommendations because they gave the way forward into handling of the issue. It is because the proposals contain the parts that concern the government for implementation. From the official part, it was essential to look into how the government could rectify the problem to enable the housing assistance project become an all-inclusive (GOA, 77). On the other hand, the information provided in the report did not include the public. However, there was the need to indicate how the public could help in collecting the data to ensure that all persons living with the virus are not left out.
The audience of this report is both the students and the government officials. The students would help increase awareness of the need to participate in data collection for verification purposes. The report should get to many people as possible to alleviate the issue of living out some people or using outdated data. However, the media to use to get it out would be the social media platforms because most of the students rely on them to convey and get information.
Work cited
GAO, “Housing for persons with HIV”. U.S Government Accountability Office.
Web. April 2015. Accessed on April 28, 2015 from <http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-298>
