Government Buildings Are Falling Apart, But One Official Has A Solution

For years, government buildings have deteriorated, hemorrhaging taxpayer dollars and endangering employees’ lives. Ed Forst, the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), has a plan to change that.

In an interview with the Daily Caller, Forst detailed just how derelict many of these buildings have become. Many government-run buildings left to decay have become uninhabitable, with collapsing concrete ceilings, exposed wires, and standing water rendering spaces unusable. 

“There is an act of the government which requires occupancy data to be submitted to us,” Forst told the Caller. “The first submissions were in March, and agencies were required to meet a 60 percent agency-wide occupancy level. Not one agency in the federal government met it. Not one.”