“Improper payments are a long-standing and significant problem in the federal government. Since fiscal year 2003, executive branch agencies (agencies) have reported cumulative improper payment estimates of about $2.8 trillion, including $161.5 billion for fiscal year 2024,” said the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a report dated 1.23.2025 that is linked here. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau linked here, the average cost nationally of a single section manufactured home in August of 2024 was $86,600. If that $161.5 billion was divided by the cost of that ‘average’ manufactured home in 8.2024 per the Census Bureau figures, that means that documented federal waste that year could have paid for 1,864,896 new HUD Code manufactured homes. The total official “point in time” homeless count per the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 2024 was about 770,000, yet another problematic ‘record’ for the Biden-Harris (D) administration.

While several agencies were found to have made improper payments, among them is the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Other federal agencies that were part of the massive miss in improper payments, per the GAO report, are shown in Part I below.

 

Let’s point out that part of what the above and follows immediately below are not a policy proposal. What this article aims to do is present a series of facts that ought to shock the conscience of all public officials, taxpayers, and Americans of whatever background.

This article then used that information to show just how much money that represents by dividing that loss by the average cost of a single section manufactured home. As the paragraph above, and more information that follows, indicated, there is so much money being wasted that every homeless person in the U.S. could be given a new manufactured home.

Given that 1,864,896 new HUD Code manufactured homes could have been paid for by the waste found by the GAO, and there were only about 770,000, that means that some 1,164,896 million manufactured homes could be produced to ‘give’ to someone else. 

Given that California wildfires have destroyed thousands of homes, and people in North Carolina and other areas impacted by Hurricane Helene or other storms are also in need, the housing could be put to good use (again, not a policy pitch, but it illustrates that sheer volume of wasted money involved).

Let’s also note that the information that follows from the Census Bureau includes multi-section manufactured homes, which typically accounts for roughly half of all new HUD Code manufactured housing sales in a given year.

 

 

Here is the math on the first paragraph’s point: $161,500,000,000 (documented waste per GAO)/$86,600 (single section manufactured home per Census Bureau) =1,864,896.0739. total numbers of manufactured homes that could be paid for if that money had not been wasted to fraud, incompetency, abuses, and other problematic federal mismanagement.

Perhaps as embarrassing, there are federal agencies that failed to report according to the GAO. So, the likelihood is that the total waste by the feds is higher. Perhaps significantly higher.

 

 

The Center Square, citing the GAO data, said: Improper payments have declined…costing the government $239 billion in 2023 before dropping to $161.8 billion in 2024.”

Per the GAO: “For fiscal year 2022, 18 agencies reported an estimated $247 billion in improper payments across 82 programs.”

Let’s just do some more math.

$239 billion U.S. dollars + $247 billion U.S. dollars + $161.8 billion U.S. dollars = $647.8 U.S. dollars over just 3 of the four years of the problem plagued Biden-Harris (D) regime.

According to World Population review, there are “Approximately 340 million people” in the U.S. in 2024. Perhaps some 14 million of those are “illegal aliens” who entered the U.S. during the Biden-Harris (D) years. There were already other

Per the Census Bureau on NOV. 12, 2024 was the following.

Newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s historical America’s Families and Living Arrangements tables show that about 64% of households were classified as family households in 2024. This marks a significant change from 50 years ago, when 79% of households were family households. …

In 2024, almost three-quarters (74%) of family households were married-couple households. Family households that did not include a married couple were more likely to have a female householder (68%) than male householder (32%). Among nonfamily households, about 52% included a female householder, while 48% had a male householder. A substantial portion of nonfamily households were homes with someone living alone — 81% in 2024 compared with 89% 50 years ago.

Households:

• In 2024, there were 38.5 million one-person households, which was 29% of all U.S. households. In 1974, one-person households represented only 19% of all households.
• As the population ages, the portion of householders age 65 and older has increased from about 1 in 5 50 years ago to over 1 in 4 in 2024.

Families:

• The percentage of families with their own children under age 18 in the household declined from 1974 to 2024. In 1974, 54% of all U.S. families lived with their own children under age 18, compared to 39% in 2024.

Marriage:

• In 2024, 34% of adults age 15 and over had never been married.
• The estimated median age to marry for the first time was 30.2 years for men and 28.6 years for women in 2024, up from ages 23.1 and 21.1, respectively, in 1974.

Living Arrangements:

•  In 2024, more than half (57%) of adults ages 18 to 24 lived in their parental home compared to 16% of adults ages 25 to 34.

More from that press release is found in Part II. But let’s take note a few things.

Money that is wasted in one area is obviously not available somewhere else.

Homelessness is often caused, per sources noted in the report below, by a lack of affordable housing.

 

 

As our MHProNews sister site previously reported, VT Lt. Governor Zuckerman said (per the Bennington Banner)”Houselessness is the canary in the coal mine. There is something radically wrong if anybody is living on the streets.”

 

That same Lt. Gov. Zuckerman said in a 2024 press release the following.

NEWS: Lt. Governor Zuckerman releases statement regarding Vermont’s homelessness crisis 

MONTPELIER, Vt:  On Tuesday, Lt. Governor Zuckerman released the following statement of support regarding a letter send by legislators to Governor Scott this morning calling on him to declare a state of emergency over Vermont’s homelessness crisis:

“It has been heartbreaking to hear the stories of those who have been evicted from hotels and motels in the past weeks due to the cuts that were made to the program. These cuts were ultimately passed by the legislature because of the Governor’s veto threat if those cuts were not included. Now, hundreds of Vermonters, including families with young children and people with disabilities, have been pushed out onto the streets without enough shelter beds, affordable housing units, or other alternatives for them to have adequate shelter. The Governor has regularly stated we should care for our most vulnerable, and I agree. We have a moral obligation to help the most vulnerable among us, and we are failing to do so under this administration.

“It is clear that we cannot continue to stand idly by as we watch this humanitarian crisis unfold. I hope that the Governor will listen to the legislators who have called for a state of emergency to be declared so funds can be used to help shelter vulnerable Vermonters who are experiencing homelessness and have nowhere to go while we work strategically to build more affordable housing in Vermont. In the next session, I am also calling for the House to again pass, and the Senate to take up H.829 so that we can effectively tackle our affordable housing crisis for all Vermonters in both the short and long term.”

— 30 —

But the reality is that $2.8 trillion dollars has been improperly spent since 2003, per the federal government’s own GAO.  What is the analogous misplaced spending at the state or local levels?

Nor is that “improper payments” the entire problem. There are duplicate efforts and other problems that watchdogs and critics have reported for years. Senator Rand Paul (KY-R) said in his 2024 Festivus report that those totals are about a trillion dollars for last year alone.

Per Paul’s research, millions of dollars were spent on “torturing cats,” among the other appalling problems found.

 

 

As MHLivingNews has previously reported, the rate of home ownership in some countries in Europe and elsewhere in the world is higher than it is in the U.S.

 

 

So, “misplaced payments” are hardly victimless. Every taxpayer is in a very real sense a victim of these problems.

As will be shown further below during the last four years fiscal years, which obviously was covered by the Biden-Harris (D) time in office, the so-called experts that ran the federal government allowed over $900 billion dollars to slip into the wrong hands.

And those are just the sums that were reported. Numbers of agencies simply didn’t report, the GAO said. So, how much did they fail to account for due to no reporting? How much of that went to special interests?

 

 

 

President Harry S. Truman was a Democrat, as is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But Truman said this and that is the lens this sort of problem should be looked at, regardless of political party.

 

 

 

 

But in another sense, so too are non-taxpayers. That money that went to God knows whom, where, and for whatever as a “misplaced” payment wasn’t available for another purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the blizzard of news that is covered, this GAO report may only appear to be a blip that is soon forgotten.  That’s one reason why on MHLivingNews and MHProNews, we don’t just report something once and then forget it. We often link back to reports, to bring those facts and figures back to light, so they are not as easily ‘forgotten.’

 

 

There are other sources that document these same types of problems. This sort of waste, fraud, abuse, and “improper payments” would not be tolerated in a privately owned company. Why is it tolerated by the federal government? Why is so little attention paid to it by the mainstream media?

To be clear, news does report on these issues, but they are here today, and then POOF! Forgotten in the wave of the next story.

Report: Federal Agencies Wasted More Than $130B in Improper Payments – https://t.co/uQn7zrUIZz #OANN pic.twitter.com/ecZjflGdXC

— One America News (@OANN) June 14, 2017

The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission has recovered GHC36.1 million from 17 government institutions after a payroll audit.

The Chief Executive Officer, who made this known, revealed that more than 5000 workers were being paid illegally.#MiddayLive pic.twitter.com/v0KYxFjgdb

— #TV3GH (@tv3_ghana) October 17, 2023

(The Center Square) – The federal government reported $161.8 billion in improper payments during the most recent fiscal year, according to a new watchdog report.

Improper payments have been a significant issue for the federal government, with executive branches reporting an… pic.twitter.com/tzc489wTvB

— Q???.???? (@qaggnews) January 24, 2025

Think of it as the average taxpayer having $1800 stolen from them in one year from “improper payments” alone pic.twitter.com/ibldtw7Ty2

— Austen Allred (@Austen) November 19, 2024

An estimated $100 billion in estimated improper payments were made in the Medicare and Medicaid programs in Fiscal Year 2023.

This is 43% of government-wide improper payments that year.

Source: https://t.co/udNwAVf3PS pic.twitter.com/wb9MO6Aj7K

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) November 27, 2024

? Government agencies didn’t utilize @USTreasury’s “do not pay list” in doling out pandemic relief benefits.

Using this list would have cut down on rampant fraud.

In the PPP program alone, $3.6 billion went out without necessary further review.

Watch @RepJamesComer discuss pic.twitter.com/G7iFfrCtJC

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 1, 2023

There were nearly $240 billion worth of improper payments made in FY23, and Medicare and Medicaid programs accounted for nearly 43% of the improper payments that year.

With all the information the government has access to, it’s unacceptable that hundreds of billions are wasted… pic.twitter.com/jtMVu2SrjH

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) December 15, 2024

??BREAKING NEWS

While the world was getting gaslit by the “Oversight” hearing today, the HHS OIG released their Semiannual report to Congress and it shows that $101.4 billion in improper payments were made for fiscal year (FY) 2023.

This amount represents improper payments… pic.twitter.com/JEIEBpOUkn

— Champagne Joshi (@JoshWalkos) June 3, 2024

Have you seen a 1/4 trillion dollars laying around? I seem to have misplaced it.

Payments that are made incorrectly by the government cost U.S. taxpayers $247 billion in 2022. Over the last 2 decades, the govt has lost almost $2.4 trillion in simple payment errors.

Source: GAO pic.twitter.com/oRDWKR85fK

— Jason Milton (@jason_e_milton) April 27, 2023

$161.5 billion in improper payments last year—absolutely ridiculous.

Our tax dollars are being wasted because of outdated systems and government incompetence. https://t.co/EyNj2uapI0

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) December 10, 2024

The Biden-Harris Admin has been shelling out money blindfolded.

Over $182 billion wasted on payments made out to the wrong payee, or shouldn’t have been made in the first place.

Shut it down.#HoldTheLine

SOURCE: https://t.co/dfTIJFSsnL

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) December 19, 2024

One often overlooked item on the long list of Biden-Harris disasters is their allowance of widespread failures and fraud in pandemic unemployment relief programs.

GAO estimates that 11-15% of total benefits paid during the pandemic were fraudulent, totaling between $100 to $135… pic.twitter.com/INJVJPJURh

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) November 12, 2024

?BREAKING?

Chairman James Comer & Subcommittee Chair Pete Sessions have released a staff report on widespread failures and fraud in pandemic unemployment relief programs.

The report details information, documents, and communications obtained by the Committee showing how… pic.twitter.com/PMl4WVnz0N

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) September 10, 2024

How does this make tax payers feel???

The federal government reported $161.8 billion in improper payments during the most recent fiscal year, according to a new watchdog report.https://t.co/0M9YgW3zCC

— Scott Duncan (@ScottDu44902851) January 24, 2025

Note that the Pentagon has been unable to pass its own audits for 8 years. So, one wonders if those pricey Osprey hybrid aircraft/helicopter are also just another boondoggle. Note too that Gov. Abbot should have said ‘nearly 3 trillion,’ but no doubt when the other non-reporting agencies are factored in, that 3 Trillion dollars number he used would be too low.

This must end.

17 Federal agencies admit to $3 TRILLION in improper payments since 2004.

TRILLIONS of your hard-earned tax dollars WASTED on payments made by the government to the wrong person, in the wrong amount, or for the wrong reason.https://t.co/Xj8PcaJglt

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 17, 2023

Mind blowing : Federal Agencies Admit To $3 Trillion In Improper Payments Since 2004 ! Just to put it in perspective: Last year “improper “federal payments totaled $247 billion. That’s about $20.5 billion per month, more than $675 M every, single day !!! https://t.co/IvFPJLCUm8

— VeBee???? (@VeBo1991) June 15, 2023

Then why is this happening?

$1.5 Million studying the effects of yoga on goats

•$1.7 billion maintaining empty buildings

•$5 million on a campaign to promote an alternative music scene to get hipsters to stop smoking

•$2 million to create an internship program that…

— AJ ?? (@AjApplegoose) November 13, 2024

Colossal Waste: Feds made $236 billion in ‘improper payments’ last year, watchdog reports | Just The News https://t.co/NmYG6TwcZy

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) January 5, 2024

Hefty tab: Feds report about $2.7 trillion in improper payments in two decades https://t.co/KDXnYAjp4b

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) April 3, 2024

Biden Administration Made $236 Billion in ‘Improper Payments’ Last Year: GAO Reporthttps://t.co/c99CXOI7zp

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) March 29, 2024

Govt. Report: $236 billion in federal tax money lost or wasted last year

This should never happen.
But it happens every year.
And nobody does anything meaningful to stop it.
Ask why.

From Epoch Times:

An estimated $236 billion in improper or incorrect payments was made under…

— Sharyl Attkisson ??????? (@SharylAttkisson) March 30, 2024

Taxpayers losing billions to government overlap, duplication and fragmentation: GAO report https://t.co/BmKbudorRG

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) May 20, 2024

What’s really notable about this list is that the only actual large category of waste is the $236 billion in improper payments

Do you know who identified these improper payments? The already existing agency that audits the federal government, the GAO. https://t.co/Z8rfh0fJ8c

— Jeremy ‘adjusted for inflation’ Horpedahl ? (@jmhorp) November 15, 2024

? GAO: Biden admin hid ‘susceptible’ programs from total of $236B improper payments for 2023 https://t.co/p1kJwEwfqs

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) March 28, 2024

To be clear, it remains to be seen if DOGE will fix this issue or not. But at least someone is planning to make an effort, because what years of GAO and other reporting reflects is that a report is filed, as if simply filing a report is enough. But if the abuses continue then the reports, while helpful in the sense that they give us clues as to how bad things are, they have obviously not fixed the problem.

?Report?
Federal Agencies WASTED More Than $130 BILLION in Improper Payments?
??EXACTLY why we voted #Trump????????https://t.co/eacJE5WDXj pic.twitter.com/bQAWjBd4Dq

— NANCY? (@9NewsNancy) June 14, 2017

There is more to know.

The GAO data on the massive federal waste is found in Part I.

Part II – Household data percentages per the U.S. Census Bureau.

Part III offers additional information with additional commentary and analysis which includes the official HUD report to Congress for the numbers of homeless in the U.S.

Part IV – Additional Information and Commentary

 

 

Part I. Federal Waste Data from new GAO Report

Improper Payments: Agency Reporting of

Payment Integrity Information

GAO -25-107552

 Report to the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives

January 23, 2025

Why This Matters

Improper payments are a long-standing and significant problem in the federal government. Since fiscal year 2003, executive branch agencies (agencies) have reported cumulative improper payment estimates of about $2.8 trillion, including $161.5 billion for fiscal year 2024. The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) requires agencies to manage improper payments by identifying risks, taking corrective actions, and estimating and reporting on improper payments in programs they administer. PIIA also requires each agency’s inspector general (IG) to issue an annual report on compliance with applicable PIIA criteria. Agencies’ understanding of the requirements and related key concepts of and proper oversight of compliance with PIIA criteria is important to more effective detection and prevention of improper payments. To provide relevant information on improper payments to Congress and the public, agencies’ reported payment integrity information must be timely, complete, accurate, and accessible.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) plays a key role in developing guidance for agencies to estimate and report on improper payments. OMB Circular No. A-123, appendix C, the current version of which OMB issued as Memorandum M-21-19, includes guidance for IGs on how to determine agency compliance with applicable PIIA criteria. It also includes guidance for agencies on the corrective actions PIIA requires of them if they are found noncompliant.

House Report 117-389, which accompanied the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2023, includes a provision for GAO to provide quarterly reports on improper payments. This is our eighth such report. It examines OMB’s and IGs’ roles in implementing PIIA and how agencies report payment integrity information, including instances of noncompliance and related plans to come into compliance that PIIA requires and OMB guidance reflects.

Key Takeaways

• The law requires agencies to report certain payment integrity information as part of their annual financial statements. OMB guidance specifies this reporting should include a hyperlink to PaymentAccuracy.gov, which is where agencies’ payment integrity information is posted.¹ OMB’s guidance to agencies indicates that the payment integrity information posted on PaymentAccuracy.gov fulfills certain PIIA reporting requirements.
• In IG reports issued in 2023, 10 of the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies were found noncompliant with PIIA criteria for fiscal year 2022.²
• These agencies reported their plans to come into compliance on PaymentAccuracy.gov. PIIA requires such agencies to report to the appropriate authorizing and appropriations committees of Congress on their plans to come into compliance. All 10 of the noncompliant agencies reported these plans to OMB through the annual data call in accordance with OMB guidance. The plans were then placed on PaymentAccuracy.gov, and the agencies included a link to PaymentAccuracy.gov in their annual financial statements.
• According to PaymentAccuracy.gov, nine CFO Act agencies were noncompliant with PIIA criteria for one or more of the same programs or activities for 2 consecutive years (fiscal years 2021 and 2022) and were required to propose to OMB additional program integrity proposals that would help them come into compliance. However, OMB guidance did not direct such agencies to submit program integrity proposals until September 2024. OMB will consider the agencies’ proposals and include as needed any additional funding requests in the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2026, which is due in February 2025.
• OMB staff told us they worked with congressional committees while the PIIA bill was being drafted. They stated that since implementing the law, OMB has not received congressional feedback on the usefulness of
• PaymentAccuracy.gov to report payment integrity information. Congressional committee staffers we interviewed expressed varying levels of familiarity with data available on PaymentAccuracy.gov and offered suggestions for improvements to payment integrity reporting.

 

What are improper payments?  

PIIA defines an improper payment as one that should not have been made or was made in an incorrect amount under statutory, contractual, administrative, or other legally applicable requirements. Improper payments include duplicate payments as well as any payment made to an ineligible recipient; for an ineligible good or service; and for a good or service not received, except for those payments where authorized by law.³

Agency (program)

Agency noncompliant for fiscal year 2022 per PaymentAccuracy.gov

Reported information on agency’s plan to come into compliance on PaymentAccuracy.gov in 2023

Department of Agriculture –       Farm Service Agency’s Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage –       Farm Service Agency’s Trade Mitigation Program –       Farm Service Agency’s Livestock Forage Disaster Program –       Farm Service Agency’s Emergency Conservation Program –       Staff Office – Office of the Chief Information Officer	Yes	Yes
Department of Defense –       Civilian Pay –       Commercial Pay –       DoD Travel Pay –       Military Health Benefits–Healthcare –       Military Pay–Army –       Military Pay–Navy –       Military Pay–Air Force –       Military Pay–Marine Corps –       Military Retirement	Yes	Yes
Department of Education –       Title I –       Special Education –       Education Stabilization Fund	Yes	Yes
Department of Health and Human Services –       Medicaid –       Medicare Fee-forService –       Children’s Health Insurance Program –       Advance Premium Tax Credit –       COVID-19 Uninsured Program –       Foster Care –       Head Start –       Temporary Assistance for Needy Families	Yes	Yes

 

Agency (program)	Agency noncompliant for fiscal year 2022 per PaymentAccuracy.gov	Reported information on agency’s plan to come into compliance on PaymentAccuracy.gov in 2023
Department of Homeland Security –       Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Funeral Assistance Program	Yes	Yes
Department of Housing and Urban Development –       Office of Public and Indian Housing’s Tenant Based Rental Assistance –       Office of Multifamily Housing’s ProjectBased Rental Assistance	Yes	Yes
Department of Labor –       Unemployment Insurance –       Pandemic Unemployment Assistance	Yes	Yes
Department of the Treasury –       Earned Income Tax Credit –       Additional Child Tax Credit –       American Opportunity Tax Credit –       Net Premium Tax Credit	Yes	Yes

Department of Veterans Affairs Yes                                                         Yes

• Pension
• Purchased Long-Term Services and Support

Small Business Administration –       7(a) Loan Guaranty Purchases –       Disaster Assistance Loans –       COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan –       Economic Injury Disaster Loan Emergency Assistance –       Paycheck Protection Program –       Restaurant Revitalization Fund –       Shuttered Venues Operator Grant

Yes

Yes

Source: GAO analysis of PaymentAccuracy.gov data and IG PIIA compliance reviews for fiscal year 2022.  ?  GAO-25-107552

Note: Inspectors general identified the above agencies as noncompliant with PIIA criteria and specified programs or activities that contributed to the findings of noncompliance.

 

MHLivingNews notes that there are pages of more information from the GAO report. But here is their conclusion and recommendation sections.

Conclusions

Improper payments are a long-standing and significant problem in the federal government. OMB plays a key role in developing guidance for agencies to estimate and report on improper payments, estimates of which totaled approximately $161.5 billion for fiscal year 2024.

While OMB’s process for including noncompliant agencies’ plans to come into compliance on PaymentAccuracy.gov is intended to address PIIA’s requirement for reporting to the appropriate authorizing and appropriations committees of Congress, this approach to reporting payment integrity information may be ineffective. Specifically, the absence of explicit information in agency financial reports specifying that plans to come into compliance are available on PaymentAccuracy.gov, lack of congressional awareness about the information included there, and potential expectations of direct communication between noncompliant agencies and congressional committees as described in PIIA could compromise Congress’s ability to obtain key payment integrity information needed to conduct effective oversight of improper payments.

Recommendation for Executive Action

We recommend that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget clarify that agencies found noncompliant with PIIA criteria should state explicitly in their annual financial statements that agency plans to come into compliance are available on PaymentAccuracy.gov, or otherwise directly communicate such plans to the appropriate congressional committees. (Recommendation 1)

— The balance of the GAO report is found at this link here. —

 

MHLivingNews Notes: Given the fact that this is an ongoing problem, it doesn’t seem that GAO has proposed anything that is truly remedial. The processes that are in place are clearly not working when $2.8 trillion has been lost in this manner since 2003, and in just the last 4 years that covers much of the Biden-Harris (D) administration’s portion of that loss, here are the figures.

Per the GAO – ‘Misplaced Payments’ reports

2024 = $161.8 billion.

2023 = $239 billion.

2022 = $247 billion.

2021 = $281.4 billion.

For a four-year total of $929.2 billion. 

Given that the GAO said that several agencies failed to report,
it may well be that a trillion dollars or more was ‘lost’ to
improper payments.  It is a staggering sum of money.

 

Part II – Houshold Information per the U.S. Census Bureau

NOV. 12, 2024 — Newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s historical America’s Families and Living Arrangements tables show that about 64% of households were classified as family households in 2024. This marks a significant change from 50 years ago, when 79% of households were family households. Family households are defined as those that include at least one person related to the householder by birth, marriage or adoption.

In 2024, almost three-quarters (74%) of family households were married-couple households. Family households that did not include a married couple were more likely to have a female householder (68%) than male householder (32%). Among nonfamily households, about 52% included a female householder, while 48% had a male householder. A substantial portion of nonfamily households were homes with someone living alone — 81% in 2024 compared with 89% 50 years ago.

This release features an interactive data visualization on family households that includes a drop-down menu to compare living arrangements by householder age.

Here are some other highlights:

Households:

• In 2024, there were 38.5 million one-person households, which was 29% of all U.S. households. In 1974, one-person households represented only 19% of all households.
• As the population ages, the portion of householders age 65 and older has increased from about 1 in 5 50 years ago to over 1 in 4 in 2024.

Families:

• The percentage of families with their own children under age 18 in the household declined from 1974 to 2024. In 1974, 54% of all U.S. families lived with their own children under age 18, compared to 39% in 2024.

Marriage:

• In 2024, 34% of adults age 15 and over had never been married.
• The estimated median age to marry for the first time was 30.2 years for men and 28.6 years for women in 2024, up from ages 23.1 and 21.1, respectively, in 1974.

Living Arrangements:

•  In 2024, more than half (57%) of adults ages 18 to 24 lived in their parental home compared to 16% of adults ages 25 to 34.

These statistics come from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement, which has collected statistics on families for more than 60 years. The data show characteristics of households, living arrangements, married/unmarried couples and children.

For more data on families and living arrangements, visit Families and Living Arrangements at census.gov. Visit America Counts to learn more and read the feature story about this release.

More information on confidentiality protection, methodology, sampling and nonsampling error, and definitions is available in the technical documentation found at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/techdocs/cpsmar24.pdf. Information about methods to calculate standard errors for estimates in this tip sheet is included in the Source and Accuracy Statement, found in Attachment H of the technical documentation.

All comparative statements in this tip sheet have undergone statistical testing, and, unless otherwise noted, all comparisons are statistically significant at the 10 percent significance level.

No news release associated with this product. Tip sheet only.

 

Part III. Census Bureau – Average Sales Price of New Manufactured Homes. 

 

	Average Sales Price of New Manufactured Homes by Region and Size of Home
	By Month of Shipment
	(Dollars)
	United States			Northeast			Midwest			South			West
	Total1	Single	Double	Total1	Single	Double	Total1	Single	Double	Total1	Single	Double	Total1	Single	Double
2024
August	127,800	86,600	156,300	129,700	98,800	151,300	116,900	88,700	148,400	128,200	84,900	158,300	137,800	89,500	153,200
July	125,100	88,800	152,300	132,200	92,200	156,400	111,400	87,700	145,100	122,800	87,700	149,000	156,400	100,000	177,400
June	121,900	75,300	154,700	135,400	78,600	152,900	105,000	76,700	149,300	122,400	73,900	154,600	133,900	81,100	161,100
May	121,000	86,500	148,500	119,800	87,800	147,900	115,300	86,400	155,500	119,800	85,100	147,600	138,500	102,500	148,300
April	125,000	89,700	153,300	122,900	90,100	153,300	116,700	89,300	152,000	123,300	88,900	151,300	147,700	98,400	166,200
March	118,800	82,900	144,800	116,300	85,200	141,600	113,000	86,200	142,400	116,100	82,200	140,900	144,000	83,000	170,300
February	121,600	80,200	152,400	121,400	86,200	147,800	108,700	82,800	138,400	122,700	80,000	154,500	125,600	76,900	150,000
January	119,200	78,900	148,100	117,900	88,700	142,400	113,400	84,400	147,700	116,600	75,800	145,400	145,000	92,600	168,800
2023
December	121,300	79,600	149,600	124,100	83,500	156,600	116,300	82,600	157,500	119,200	79,100	145,600	140,800	76,600	168,000
November	126,600	85,900	154,100	122,600	92,400	158,200	116,800	83,900	157,300	125,100	85,200	150,000	149,600	90,600	175,900
October	120,000	83,300	147,700	118,900	84,300	151,900	111,400	84,600	149,400	119,900	83,000	147,400	135,100	82,200	146,100
September	119,700	80,400	151,700	128,700	85,400	172,800	116,000	83,500	159,400	115,900	78,000	144,500	142,300	87,600	178,400
August	128,800	89,800	154,600	132,500	105,200	158,400	113,900	92,200	145,900	128,500	86,500	153,800	149,500	94,400	163,300
July	118,000	82,300	150,200	122,700	72,900	143,100	116,000	81,400	153,400	114,900	82,600	149,300	137,000	84,800	154,900
June	121,400	85,400	153,900	121,800	85,300	149,800	111,800	84,200	153,700	120,100	85,300	152,600	140,000	89,500	162,400
May	129,900	86,300	160,200	120,900	89,800	146,000	104,900	82,900	141,000	132,500	87,800	161,600	149,700	79,800	171,800
April	125,000	86,100	153,600	123,900	87,000	160,800	112,300	87,000	148,900	123,200	83,200	150,100	150,600	105,100	173,400
March	124,700	85,200	155,400	135,200	100,600	172,900	109,400	88,600	152,000	123,800	80,800	153,100	140,800	94,900	162,000
February	128,100	89,200	160,400	136,600	107,000	167,800	114,400	85,300	158,800	127,800	88,200	157,900	144,000	92,800	170,000
January	126,100	82,100	156,900	122,900	86,700	148,300	107,200	83,600	153,100	129,200	81,200	158,300	131,500	81,300	156,700
2022
December	122,100	80,200	155,700	113,900	75,300	158,300	104,700	82,300	144,300	124,000	80,700	155,400	134,700	77,600	162,400
November	125,200	88,000	155,200	119,200	93,900	146,700	113,600	89,100	147,600	126,000	86,500	155,800	138,400	89,500	161,800
October	128,300	81,400	160,400	127,000	86,400	155,300	113,500	87,500	156,700	128,100	77,000	160,000	153,600	86,200	167,300
September	130,400	95,800	159,400	131,300	101,400	162,000	114,600	93,000	155,500	130,300	94,400	158,500	148,600	107,500	163,900
August	125,700	86,500	158,800	117,800	74,700	145,100	110,900	87,500	151,900	126,400	86,000	159,400	144,100	93,400	166,400
July	131,800	85,200	161,600	129,700	93,300	157,400	110,800	83,600	156,100	131,300	82,900	158,700	156,800	97,300	178,200
June	126,900	87,600	159,600	118,500	92,700	134,100	112,500	90,100	146,500	125,300	88,200	159,900	154,200	68,400	174,500
May	124,900	85,800	159,200	121,500	82,100	148,500	112,300	83,600	148,800	124,400	85,900	162,400	142,000	91,900	156,100
April	132,000	83,100	168,000	128,900	87,200	154,700	110,400	80,500	147,800	132,100	83,500	169,900	155,400	82,400	176,600
March	129,200	87,300	156,600	117,900	97,400	145,300	118,500	90,000	154,200	127,400	85,200	154,400	156,100	89,800	171,600
February	128,000	87,700	156,300	130,600	76,000	152,700	115,900	82,400	155,500	126,300	89,500	155,000	150,100	85,100	163,600
January	122,500	84,600	152,800	120,600	85,900	141,800	108,300	82,800	145,400	122,700	85,400	153,300	140,800	80,700	161,000
2021
December	123,200	80,900	150,300	104,700	73,900	127,200	103,300	88,200	129,400	123,500	80,000	149,600	145,200	76,900	170,600
November	111,900	76,400	139,900	100,900	71,600	133,500	107,300	78,100	143,800	110,700	77,000	138,400	128,800	68,400	145,500
October	112,000	81,700	138,200	110,300	74,400	138,700	101,000	81,000	132,600	110,700	81,900	136,400	131,600	85,000	150,400
September	118,300	78,800	141,300	102,100	76,100	124,100	109,300	80,900	142,300	119,300	78,500	142,200	132,100	76,200	141,600
August	112,000	80,000	138,000	105,000	86,000	117,000	100,000	77,000	132,000	112,000	80,000	139,000	135,000	79,000	143,000
July	118,700	76,000	137,800	98,500	74,100	125,700	110,500	79,100	139,300	119,200	74,500	137,100	131,100	81,700	142,800
June	106,800	70,200	128,100	101,600	73,700	124,200	94,900	65,600	125,800	107,500	70,700	128,000	116,400	72,200	131,500
May	106,500	69,900	128,300	98,400	69,900	121,500	94,300	67,500	128,200	109,900	70,600	129,200	104,400	70,300	125,500
April	100,200	66,700	122,500	95,900	73,800	113,300	85,400	61,800	125,400	100,400	67,700	122,200	118,400	65,000	125,000
March	98,100	63,300	123,200	91,400	58,600	121,300	86,400	60,800	119,100	98,100	63,700	122,400	113,000	67,300	130,800
February	98,300	65,400	122,500	88,300	59,400	113,800	87,300	62,400	118,100	98,100	67,100	121,800	116,900	60,900	131,900
January	95,000	64,100	118,500	102,600	67,900	116,200	83,000	62,100	112,700	94,000	64,600	117,300	113,400	62,300	129,500
2020
December	90,200	62,600	110,800	93,600	58,200	115,300	77,100	55,800	107,900	90,100	64,500	109,900	108,800	64,500	115,900
November	92,600	63,500	112,800	85,600	63,600	103,900	81,000	62,400	117,400	92,600	64,200	109,700	115,400	60,100	128,200
October	89,400	57,200	110,000	91,000	57,700	112,100	81,700	58,300	108,000	87,400	56,500	107,900	108,900	61,200	120,000
September	87,300	58,300	107,800	84,800	61,000	105,600	72,100	52,800	98,300	86,900	58,400	105,700	110,100	68,600	126,600
August	88,200	57,700	109,300	87,600	56,700	109,600	75,900	59,500	97,600	87,900	56,800	109,100	104,900	60,500	119,500
July	84,200	59,800	102,700	78,600	58,600	100,300	72,600	56,900	97,000	83,700	59,500	101,300	103,700	72,100	113,200
June	85,600	52,900	109,800	91,700	55,400	117,000	81,400	56,100	115,200	82,700	51,700	106,800	102,700	55,600	117,000
May	85,900	55,200	109,100	79,100	56,300	100,200	73,400	56,800	100,900	85,200	54,100	108,500	105,100	60,700	117,800
April	86,900	53,300	108,200	86,100	53,900	105,200	79,500	57,000	105,000	84,000	51,600	106,100	111,800	64,500	120,300
March	82,900	53,800	106,900	79,100	54,400	102,400	79,200	55,300	108,400	82,000	53,300	106,900	92,600	54,300	106,700
February	83,400	55,600	107,500	81,500	54,000	109,800	70,900	55,200	98,200	82,000	55,300	105,600	103,500	59,600	118,900
January	86,400	55,300	107,900	77,700	52,900	104,800	74,200	55,400	101,800	86,200	55,200	108,100	103,400	59,900	111,300
2019
December	86,400	54,400	105,700	79,500	54,000	98,500	70,200	54,400	96,100	87,900	54,600	106,900	97,700	52,100	107,600
November	81,600	52,100	107,100	79,200	49,400	113,100	73,400	50,600	104,000	79,500	52,500	104,800	101,400	54,100	114,700
October	81,700	53,900	103,800	80,600	61,200	101,600	72,100	53,800	100,200	81,600	52,500	103,400	96,600	58,800	109,100
September	81,500	55,600	101,800	84,100	59,600	103,700	71,900	55,900	98,400	80,200	55,100	99,300	99,500	55,300	113,000
August	84,100	49,200	107,900	81,900	45,700	101,200	75,700	52,500	99,800	81,400	48,700	106,600	107,500	48,200	120,700
July	82,000	54,000	106,500	88,000	51,600	129,500	74,400	53,900	105,700	78,100	54,900	100,300	108,400	45,700	121,000
June	84,400	52,800	103,800	84,800	57,800	109,100	72,600	52,700	97,100	83,400	53,200	100,500	100,600	47,000	118,800
May	78,100	53,800	98,100	76,400	49,200	105,200	72,300	56,000	98,100	75,800	53,600	95,000	96,300	55,000	106,800
April	78,900	55,700	100,700	82,000	59,300	109,000	70,800	56,700	91,900	77,100	54,000	99,300	95,400	63,600	109,100
March	78,900	50,400	102,100	74,500	48,000	98,400	71,300	49,900	96,300	77,800	50,900	101,600	92,900	49,100	108,500
February	85,000	52,600	107,600	74,100	52,300	97,500	72,500	56,000	97,200	84,800	52,600	106,600	103,100	43,500	119,400
January	81,800	53,400	103,400	86,600	60,100	109,000	68,000	54,200	98,000	81,100	51,400	101,700	95,800	59,000	110,400
2018
December	82,400	52,100	106,000	79,600	57,500	93,600	74,300	53,800	96,400	80,100	51,500	104,900	101,400	51,600	120,400
November	79,900	55,400	100,500	81,400	52,300	104,700	74,100	56,200	101,900	77,100	54,600	97,800	99,300	62,600	107,800
October	82,400	54,500	106,000	81,600	59,300	96,200	73,100	56,700	94,300	79,800	53,500	105,900	105,100	57,300	116,500
September	83,600	54,400	105,400	78,800	57,600	97,300	76,700	58,300	105,500	81,600	51,900	104,500	102,600	62,000	111,600
August	81,500	55,100	100,900	82,900	58,400	113,000	73,600	54,500	97,800	79,800	54,500	98,100	97,400	57,600	110,300
July	78,900	52,000	99,300	73,600	33,900	100,600	79,600	57,300	104,500	74,900	51,300	94,000	102,800	59,300	118,200
June	85,400	54,900	101,300	82,400	52,900	97,500	77,400	52,700	99,700	83,200	55,100	97,100	105,000	57,600	122,900
May	81,200	57,100	99,100	81,700	62,400	104,300	72,500	57,600	92,900	79,000	56,300	97,000	104,000	60,300	108,900
April	74,900	50,600	98,700	87,300	54,900	109,900	67,300	51,600	92,800	71,100	48,600	95,300	103,100	67,400	113,400
March	70,600	49,800	91,400	70,900	50,400	96,600	67,700	50,600	93,800	68,900	50,000	88,900	82,900	45,800	98,700
February	73,400	47,900	93,800	80,400	50,800	98,200	72,100	49,700	98,000	70,600	46,700	91,200	87,100	53,900	100,600
January	69,000	47,300	92,100	79,500	52,400	106,000	59,300	44,900	85,600	64,400	46,300	85,900	98,900	59,400	114,200
2017
December	72,900	53,400	91,800	76,900	49,200	100,300	64,900	48,700	84,500	70,000	54,000	89,000	96,400	58,600	103,900
November	71,800	46,600	99,100	75,300	49,400	107,000	68,100	48,500	90,500	65,800	45,900	91,600	114,500	49,800	130,300
October	68,300	46,400	95,500	76,300	45,100	96,900	65,600	48,600	88,600	64,200	45,700	93,600	95,200	50,900	106,900
September	71,800	47,100	93,800	72,400	50,800	92,700	62,800	45,500	87,200	68,800	46,600	89,000	95,600	51,700	116,700
August	73,800	47,600	94,300	70,400	50,400	88,700	65,300	48,200	88,600	72,500	47,200	91,500	91,600	46,600	110,900
July	75,300	47,900	93,800	80,700	52,500	102,100	70,900	48,200	89,400	70,300	47,900	88,400	99,700	44,500	111,900
June	75,600	49,500	97,400	84,800	57,300	95,500	69,400	49,900	94,300	70,800	49,300	91,600	106,300	46,600	125,000
May	71,800	49,100	87,900	78,800	55,500	93,300	64,600	45,200	84,400	68,500	49,400	84,000	94,900	47,800	104,500
April	73,300	47,400	89,900	79,600	53,800	100,200	63,900	47,800	84,500	70,900	45,500	86,600	93,000	57,200	104,300
March	70,100	50,800	88,000	76,900	56,700	100,700	64,500	49,600	83,900	67,000	50,700	84,600	89,800	49,400	99,400
February	71,000	48,700	92,500	86,500	48,700	96,300	61,500	46,800	84,700	66,200	48,400	87,300	104,200	59,000	115,100
January	68,100	44,900	89,700	84,700	59,900	99,600	59,800	45,800	85,100	64,600	44,000	85,900	93,600	45,800	107,100
2016
December	73,100	49,900	90,800	73,900	44,200	92,800	67,100	45,000	85,800	71,400	50,100	89,000	85,900	56,000	101,500
November	71,700	47,000	90,900	70,800	45,500	94,000	58,900	46,500	84,700	72,100	47,100	88,000	89,200	48,100	108,900
October	71,600	48,300	87,400	75,300	45,700	90,700	60,200	47,600	81,300	71,300	47,500	84,700	85,100	54,100	104,000
September	69,400	46,700	93,000	79,600	55,400	101,800	62,400	46,100	96,500	65,300	45,400	89,300	93,900	58,000	99,000
August	74,200	50,000	93,100	86,100	57,500	106,600	60,800	45,500	84,300	71,600	46,100	91,300	95,000	79,900	99,600
July	73,300	49,500	91,000	73,900	53,400	103,600	65,900	48,200	91,700	70,200	47,700	87,100	96,800	67,700	100,600
June	70,500	46,600	87,000	85,000	50,900	113,700	61,500	45,100	84,100	66,800	44,900	81,500	89,000	57,100	100,300
May	71,300	45,800	87,800	75,900	45,900	99,600	63,500	46,700	86,600	69,800	45,000	84,600	83,500	48,000	96,400
April	67,800	44,100	87,500	78,600	45,400	100,100	61,600	45,900	86,900	64,900	42,500	85,000	85,400	53,900	92,900
March	69,800	44,500	88,300	72,800	45,100	103,200	59,200	46,200	83,200	69,600	44,100	86,300	83,200	42,500	97,000
February	67,600	43,900	92,600	81,500	50,000	97,300	57,900	45,600	85,100	65,300	43,000	89,700	84,800	45,400	106,600
January	67,600	45,900	84,100	69,400	48,100	90,700	61,400	48,200	86,800	65,200	44,600	80,200	86,900	50,000	96,100
2015
December	70,800	46,200	88,100	74,200	52,100	95,300	63,300	46,600	85,900	69,200	45,700	85,500	84,400	44,600	96,400
November	68,000	44,300	89,400	79,000	52,500	90,600	61,100	47,300	84,500	63,200	42,500	84,000	96,100	51,000	110,300
October	66,800	43,800	84,900	77,100	45,100	95,200	56,500	43,100	79,700	65,500	43,200	82,200	78,900	47,300	95,400
September	70,700	48,400	87,700	71,600	54,400	91,400	63,900	50,600	83,900	68,500	46,800	85,500	90,100	49,700	97,900
August	67,000	42,900	87,100	73,300	53,600	94,100	61,600	45,700	90,000	62,800	39,400	80,700	89,200	48,200	106,400
July	64,500	44,400	83,700	68,000	47,700	83,100	62,600	48,500	84,600	59,800	42,900	78,400	88,200	46,800	101,000
June	69,100	45,500	87,500	68,100	53,200	90,700	60,500	45,900	84,200	66,100	44,000	83,700	93,700	46,700	102,800
May	69,500	47,300	89,100	69,500	46,100	84,700	61,800	43,000	92,600	68,100	49,000	85,600	83,400	44,200	100,700
April	67,400	46,900	86,500	69,400	48,900	88,800	59,700	47,900	75,000	64,700	46,800	82,200	89,600	45,100	111,100
March	66,200	46,100	85,000	89,000	52,300	114,000	60,900	47,400	86,400	63,200	44,100	80,300	79,300	53,600	96,600
February	68,300	46,200	87,000	66,500	50,000	88,800	59,600	47,500	80,600	65,900	45,600	84,200	90,200	45,500	99,600
January	68,400	44,600	84,400	64,700	45,600	77,200	57,000	43,700	78,300	64,600	44,900	79,400	102,500	42,600	107,700
2014
December	64,800	46,200	78,100	68,100	55,300	77,500	57,000	45,600	72,900	62,000	45,500	75,000	86,900	52,600	91,800
November	64,200	43,700	83,500	80,500	58,000	98,300	61,600	47,600	84,700	59,100	39,900	78,300	84,800	57,400	95,100
October	62,400	46,000	76,900	63,400	50,900	73,600	64,500	50,900	78,700	59,000	44,400	74,700	77,100	47,100	84,700
September	67,000	43,600	82,600	71,900	45,000	88,500	59,000	41,600	78,500	66,000	44,500	80,900	80,200	39,900	90,100
August	67,100	44,200	87,600	71,700	43,100	93,600	60,200	46,800	80,900	66,400	43,300	87,800	75,400	45,800	88,900
July	63,500	45,400	80,100	57,900	43,900	73,300	61,600	45,200	77,800	61,200	45,700	77,800	79,300	45,200	92,900
June	65,200	44,900	84,000	73,800	47,000	94,900	58,700	45,600	81,200	62,600	44,600	81,000	82,300	44,200	92,300
May	65,400	45,700	78,300	62,900	50,200	76,200	61,700	46,800	79,600	64,000	44,200	76,100	77,400	49,000	88,900
April	66,400	44,700	83,000	61,300	44,000	82,500	59,100	45,700	78,500	66,100	43,900	81,300	77,100	47,600	92,900
March	65,700	43,200	83,900	76,400	43,100	91,600	58,100	45,100	81,800	63,600	42,400	82,100	84,400	46,700	90,300
February	64,300	45,000	82,200	59,100	40,600	76,200	59,700	44,800	86,100	62,200	44,800	79,700	79,600	48,800	90,800
January	68,300	48,000	84,500	72,100	48,700	92,600	72,000	51,400	88,200	63,800	46,900	80,700	87,700	55,400	93,900
1 Includes manufactured homes with more than two sections.
Note:  Estimates include manufactured homes that are sold and those intended for sale for residential use.
Note:    The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and has approved
the disclosure avoidance practices applied.  (Approval ID: CBDRB-FY24-0317)
Source:  These data are produced by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Census Bureau from a survey sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

 

Part IV – Big Government Doesn’t Work as Advertised, Period

Pages or books could be written about this problem of improper payments. Does it impact you and those you know? Absolutely.

This writer was a younger man when the Reagan Administration established the Grace Commission to investigate waste, fraud and abuse. Some 40 years later, there is still plenty of talk. Will there be action? Will DOGE do as advertised?

Time will tell.

But what is certain is that about 150 years before our time, the French thinker Frederic Bastiat said the following.

 

 

Yours truly used the longer version of that quote above in what is shown below. That was uploaded to MHProNews on December 3, 2020. Problems just kept rolling on, didn’t they?

 

 

Odds are you and those you know could have a much more comfortable and less stressful life if such waste, fraud, and abuse were stopped.  Big government must be pared down. There will be complaints, because some are obviously benefiting from a corrupted system. But to end corruption and inept behavior there must be accountability. This wouldn’t be tolerated by a legitimate business. It should be tolerated by taxpayers and American citizens either.

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