{"id":3029,"date":"2015-06-24T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2015-06-24T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:24:59","slug":"why-cant-the-federal-government-sell-unneeded-real-property-more-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/why-cant-the-federal-government-sell-unneeded-real-property-more-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#8217;t the Federal Government Sell Unneeded Real Property More Quickly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3030\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-Hut.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3030\" data-attachment-id=\"3030\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/why-cant-the-federal-government-sell-unneeded-real-property-more-quickly\/the-hut\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-Hut.png\" data-orig-size=\"491,381\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Hut\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Source; Government Accountability Office&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-Hut-300x233.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-Hut.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3030\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-Hut.png\" alt=\"Source; Government Accountability Office\" width=\"491\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-Hut.png 491w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-Hut-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source; Government Accountability Office<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/600\/591751.pdf\">the hut<\/a>. Its real name is unknown. For all anyone knows, it might have been used as a storage shed or for some other purpose. The U.S. Department of Interior sought to get rid of the squat, 95-square-foot stone pile in 2010. It was crumbling and had not been used in years.\u00a0Alas, the DOI had no such luck&#8230;.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/fixgov\/posts\/2015\/06\/24-federal-real-property-reform-kosar-booth\">read more at Brookings Institution&#8217;s FixGov Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the hut. Its real name is unknown. For all anyone knows, it might have been used as a storage shed or for some other purpose. The U.S. Department of Interior sought to get rid of the squat, 95-square-foot stone pile in 2010. It was crumbling and had not been used in years.\u00a0Alas, the DOI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[184],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-property","tag-brookings-institution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-MR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}