Hi MAV,
About this thing that you said...
"HUD is a failure"
Maybe you have some statistics to back that up. I don't know. But I'm going to give you a personal, rather than statistical perspective on HUD, because I'm in a position to do so.
I live in a small apartment complex that is specifically for people who are elderly, handicapped, or disabled. It is subsidized by HUD. If I couldn't live here, or another HUD subsidized facility, at this particular point in my life, I might well be homeless.
So, from my own, personal perspective, HUD is a very big success.
Carol