The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Inspector General audited HUD’s oversight of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured home equity conversion mortgages (HECM) program. We initiated the audit as part of the activities in our 2008 annual audit plan. Our audit objective was to determine whether HUD had adequate oversight of the underwriting of HECM loans. This is the second of two audit reports...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Inspector General audited HUD’s process for reviewing and approving commercial rents for multifamily properties. Our objective was to determine whether HUD’s review and approval process for commercial rents ensured that multifamily properties received commercial rents that were comparable to market rate rents. HUD did not have a uniform process to ensure that commercial rent...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Inspector General reviewed the front-end risk assessment (assessment) of the Green Retrofit Program (program) for Multifamily Housing for HUD. Our objective was to determine whether the assessment complied with the Office of Management and Budget’s guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act); the Recovery Act’s Updated Implementing...

We completed an audit of the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Asset Control Area (ACA) program as a follow-up to a previous OIG audit of this program, and as a part of the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) strategic plan goals to improve HUD’s fiscal accountability. The objective of the audit was to determine whether HUD administered the ACA program in compliance with ACA program requirements and federal regulations....

We initiated a review of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) monitoring of the performance-based contract administration contract administrators (PBCA) because of our prior audits that reported that HUD paid contract administrators $27.2 million during fiscal year 2006 for work HUD had eliminated and that the Los Angeles multifamily hub did not properly monitor its contractor. Our audit objective was to determine...

We completed a corrective action verification of HUD’s actions in implementing portions of Audit Memorandum 98-AO-219-1804, issued September 24, 1998; Upfront Grant for Ridgecrest Heights Apartments, CEMI-Ridgecrest, Inc., Washington, DC. The specific objective of this corrective action verification review was to determine if HUD ensured the repayment of excess proceeds from the sale of townhomes located at Ridgecrest Heights Apartments. HUD...

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) processing of its Section 202 and Section 811 capital advances as a part of our annual audit plan. The audit objective was to determine whether HUD's program centers under the jurisdiction of its Region 3 (program centers) processed Section 202 and Section 811 capital advances in accordance with HUD requirements. Program centers did not always process Section 202...

We performed a review of HUD's recent invitation to submit applications (invitation) for performance-based contract administrator services for Southern California to be effective June 1, 2009, and its related annual contributions contract (contract) due to a complaint and concerns that this activity may have been inconsistent with agreed-upon management decisions on Audit Report 2007-SE-0001. The purpose of this review was to determine...

We audited the single-family partial claims collection process and its effectiveness in protecting the Federal Housing Administration?s (FHA) insurance fund. Our overall objective was to determine whether the single-family partial claims program operated effectively and efficiently to minimize costs to the insurance fund and collect amounts due in a timely manner. The National Service Center (NSC) and its contractors did not properly implement a...

This report presents the results of Urbach, Kahn, and Werlin LLP's (UKW) audit of the Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) financial statements for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2008 and 2007. In UKW's opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, FHA's financial position as of September 30, 2008 and 2007, and its net costs, changes in net position, and combined budgetary resources for...

We completed an audit of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) monitoring of its annual contributions contract with its performance-based contract administrator, the New York State Housing Trust Fund Corporation (contractor). The audit was initiated in accordance with the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) audit plan that includes performing internal audits to evaluate HUD's execution of its fiscal...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Inspector General audited HUD's oversight of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured home equity conversion mortgages (HECM) program. We initiated the audit as part of the activities in our 2008 annual audit plan. Our audit objective was to assess elements of HUD's oversight of the HECM program. This is the first of two audit reports regarding the HECM...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Inspector General audited HUD's oversight of the underwriting of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured loans for new construction properties located in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) designated special flood hazard areas. We initiated the audit as part of the activities in our 2007 annual audit plan. Our objective was to determine...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Inspector General audited HUD's use of residual receipts in lieu of reserve for replacement funds. The objective of the audit was to determine whether HUD appropriately authorized residual receipt withdrawals in lieu of reserve for replacement funds for new regulation multifamily projects. HUD inappropriately authorized the use of more than $3.2 million in residual...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General, audited HUD's Office of Single Family Housing (Single Family) due to concerns over the expected increase in Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured loans generated by newly implemented and proposed FHA programs. The objective of our audit was to determine whether Single Family had implemented an internal control structure in accordance with...

We audited HUD’s appraiser review process as part of our annual plan. The audit was proposed in response to a single-family loan origination audit that raised concerns regarding HUD’s oversight of FHA appraisers. This is the second of two audits covering HUD’s controls over the appraiser review process. The first audit report, 2008-LA-0002, focused on HUD’s oversight of the FHA appraiser roster; whereas this audit report focuses on the...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Inspector General reviewed HUD's oversight of projects that opted out of the Section 8 program between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2007. We reviewed the opt-out process because it involved large amounts of funds potentially not accounted for or remitted to HUD. With a few minor exceptions, HUD complied with applicable requirements while administering the opt-...

We concluded that Single Family could improve the reliability of its process for reporting performance measure results. Single Family has a performance measurement process in place; however, it could make the process more reliable if it routinely evaluated data used for performance measure results and formally documented its structure and process for developing, monitoring, and reporting on performance measures. We recommended that HUD establish...

We audited HUD's controls over the FHA appraiser roster in response to a single-family loan origination audit that had raised concerns about FHA appraisers and appraisals. We reviewed HUD's appraiser roster (roster) to determine whether HUD's controls over the roster were adequate to ensure that only qualified/eligible appraisers were placed on the roster and whether the oversight and maintenance of the roster were sufficient to...

HUD OIG audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Quality Assurance Division because the results of some previous OIG audits indicated that the Quality Assurance Division might not have consistently followed its requirements. Our objective was to determine whether HUD's Quality Assurance Division consistently required Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-approved lenders to indemnify loans with similar...