See OGC's mission statement at http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/general_counsel/missionstatement
which includes the following, which I have amended to work for the agency generally:

We value:
Commitment to public service.
Commitment to HUD's success.
Excellence and continuous and never-ending improvement in all that we do.
Integrity, honesty and trust.
Respect for each other and those with whom we interact.
Each other and our service partners.
Commitment to serving others with care, compassion and respect including persons targeted by HUD programs.
Creativity, innovation and a willingness to embrace new ideas and challenges and to be a catalyst for change.
Performance, measurable results and acceptance of accountability.
Professionalism and rules of ethics.
A passion for our profession.

Through our grants award and scoring processes, HUD does a good job of drilling down the mission and goals. For example, the Consolidated Plan, the PIH Administrative Plan and the ICDBG/CDBG scoring process brings focus to HUD’s goals. However, HUD is virtually invisible during the participation process. HUD is rarely visible during, say, a LIHTC QAP review. HUD personnel are not present at local Consolidated Plan review. Over the years, HUD has abdicated its leadership role; the agency has allowed itself to be “bypassed” as a function of its role as a “pass-through” agency.
Solution: Provide comments to the Consolidated Plans, QAP, etc. as a stakeholder. Engage in the participatory planning meetings as a stakeholder. Become a participant, not an observer.

Goal 4 relates to building sustainable communities free from discrimination. However, there is nothing in the MAP that is guiding us to become more sustainable in the way we as an agency does business. We need to be setting the example and requiring our partners and grantees to do the same. Why are we not mandated to implement green procurement practices? Why aren't we required to recycle and decrease our waste stream? Our office is trying to do more because of a select few who care a great deal have made it a priority. In my opinion, measures have to be taken and prioritized from the top on down.

Establish an internal Ombudsman Program to assist HUD employees to discover solutions to their work culture issues prior to the problems getting too far out of reach. The ombudsman's role is becoming better known, within Federal Government Agencies. And, there seems to be a fair amount of bi-partisan support for this program concept in Congress. With staff reductions in many agencies, the need for problem resolution between regulators and the regulated (or affected third parties) is becoming more sensitive. Similarly, as workplace tensions increase due to the dislocations caused by staffing problems and EEO considerations, the need for internal problem-solving is growing equally fast.

A study of the HUD’s grievance management practice, specifically, concentrated on identifying the Agency efficiencies of grievance filing activity and the factors associated with the early resolution of grievances is essential. To the best of my knowledge, no study has ever been attempted to identify the factors that may influence a grievance basis and the outcome of a grievances. In my opinion, a grievance should be filed as a last resort attempt to remedy employee’s problems. A high number of grievance filling may be a sign of management underperformance. For this reason, a study is needed to be conducted within the U.S. Department of HUD for the purpose of discovering the root to grievance filings.
The purpose of this study is to empirically examine, using HUD’s grievance, the variability of grievance purpose and the outcomes across all grievance steps, the salary grades and occupations of the grievant, and grievance issues. This study will contribute to the Agency in several ways. First, since little is known about the factors influencing the onsite of a grievance or the grievance outcomes. Second, the findings may help explain management shortfalls. Third, the survey finding will promote more transparency and increase accountability within the U.S. Department of HUD.

In the rush to produce more and more crops to satisfy growing demand producers have had to resort to using a lethal cocktail of pesticides to control disease and insect attack.
Also don't forget about the cocktail of anti-biotics and hormones that cattle and poultry are force fed.

What happens to those chemicals when the animal dies?

Healthy food options start with organic food. There are none of the aforementioned potential dangers of genetically modified organisms, pesticides and hormones. Instead, the food is pure, grown in organic soil and fertilizers. Farmers feed animals natural substances such as grass.

All of these natural element increase the quality of the food you're eating. Organic food is full of antioxidants. In fact, organic vegetables and fruits have a lot more antioxidants than conventional veggies and fruits. In fact, Dr. Weil reports, "Data released in 2005 by the Organic Consumers Association showed that on average, the organic crops studied contained about one-third higher antioxidant content than comparable conventional produce" (drweil.com). As the study continued, it also showed that organic fruits and veggies had two or three times as much vitamins, nutrients and flavonoids than regular food.

Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-living/articles/73381.aspx#ixzz13envVfiJ

HUD has several programs for creating jobs and housing opportunities with funds available for non-profits to achieve the desired objectives. What we are targeting is short-term problems and the program strategies are implemented with blinders focusing on correcting the situation instead of leaving behind the lasting milestone for continuous adaptability to the resolution for future stability. At present we share program funding with non-profits and assume that they cater to the needs of the target group. At any given time, housing and job-related problems are at both levels: upper and lower where we weigh needs vs income potential of the group. Though each vary in how we define the daily needs, overall the consumer index is affected and with zero income & higher unemployment rate in corporate America affects the economy much greater than comparable improvements by non-profit in the area where people live with poverty. Until now HUD has concentrated only for the poorest of the poor ignoring the poverty storm flowing from the top that is affecting the lower level of poverty and overall economy.
The need of the hour is to build an alliance corporate America in employment and housing conditions strategizing the partnership whereby HUD can access the demographics of the working class of each area, state and share programs with employers as motivation to enhance productivity and strengthen the work force morale for secured future. The target should be for the large corporations that controls large number of employment and general huge income locally and for the employees. As we have recently observed majority of automobile, and engineering industries were shut down it has created a huge drought in local economy where the affects were much louder than the efforts of small non-profits in the area trying to recoup the needs of few locals.