David Wise: Finding reliable data on federal real estate

It's no secret that property management is no easy task for the government, which has to manage a massive portfolio of thousands of buildings. Part of the problem...

David Wise, director of physical infrastructure issues, GAO

It's no secret that property management is no easy task for the government, which has to manage a massive portfolio of thousands of buildings. Part of the problem is that it's hard to get a clear picture of what the government owns because of agencies' inconsistent approaches to counting facilities and different definitions for real property. David Wise, director of physical infrastructure issues at GAO, joined In Depth guest host Jared Serbu to discuss data reliability in federal real estate.

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