HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Reporting and
Remediation in Its Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Programs
Ensure that the owners for the two Housing Choice Voucher program units, in which the families were relocated and abatement was not performed, do not provide housing for families with children under 6 years of age until the lead hazards are abated.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Reporting and
Remediation in Its Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Programs
Obtain documentation of a lead-based paint inspection or exemption for the 222 public housing developments that failed to provide evidence of compliance with HUD’s lead-based paint inspection requirements.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Reporting and
Remediation in Its Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Programs
Work with the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes to update HUD’s regulations to expand the inspection and abatement requirements of 24 CFR Part 35 to housing completed after 1977 in cases in which a child with an elevated blood
lead level is reported.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Reporting and
Remediation in Its Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Programs
Implement adequate procedures and controls at HUD’s field offices to ensure that requirements of 24 CFR Part 35 are followed by public housing agencies, including monitoring the public housing agencies to ensure that required actions are appropriately completed and performed in a timely manner.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Ensure that its staff appropriately determines exemptions from the Lead Safe Housing Rule and documents support of the determinations.
Corrective Action Taken
In June 2023, HUD publicly issued Notice 2023-16, Implementation of National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Ensure that its staff determines whether a child under 6 years of age resides in an exempted development. If a child is determined to reside in an exempted development take appropriate actions in accordance with its internal policies
Corrective Action Taken
The Office of Field Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Ensure that the 55 developments without sufficient support for an exemption either support the exemption status or complete the required lead-based paint inspections and provide the documentation to the appropriate field office.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Ensure that the remaining 244 developments’ exemption status is properly supported.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Ensure that the 382 potentially noncompliant developments are reported in its response tracking system and reviewed for compliance with the Lead Safe Housing Rule.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Implement adequate procedures and controls for monitoring public housing agencies’ compliance with the Lead Safe Housing Rule. Such procedures and controls should include but not limited to establishing timeframes for reporting potentially noncompliant developments in its tracking system and Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Develop a framework for taking administrative actions against public housing agencies that do not comply with HUD’s Lead Safe Rule.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Continue its efforts to identify and train staff on how to use the response tracker.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Continue its efforts to resolve technical issues that prevented the addition of new cases into the response tracker.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Public Housing Agencies' Compliance With the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Establish policies, procedures, and controls for validating and correcting construction dates of the public housing developments in IMS-PIC. If the information is determined to be inaccurate, HUD should work with public housing agencies to update the data to
ensure accuracy.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Hazard Remediation in Public Housing
We recommend that the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing require the Real Estate Assessment Center in coordination with the Office of Field Operations to develop and implement a plan to manage lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards in public housing.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Hazard Remediation in Public Housing
Requires the REAC in coordination with OFO to determine the number of developments and associated units that contain lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards.
Status
The Real Estate Assessment Center and Office of Field Operations will collaborate with the Office of Lead Hazard Control Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Hazard Remediation in Public Housing
We recommend that the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing require the Real Estate Assessment Center in coordination with the Office of Field Operations to determine the cost to eliminate or control the lead-based paint and lead based paint hazards in public housing and Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Hazard Remediation in Public Housing
We recommend that the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing require the Real Estate Assessment Center in coordination with the Office of Field Operations to implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that public housing agencies appropriately identify and Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Hazard Remediation in Public Housing
We recommend that the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing require the Real Estate Assessment Center in coordination with the Office of Field Operations to determine whether the public housing agencies identified as having lead-based paint hazards in their housing Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Hazard Remediation in Public Housing
We recommend that the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing require the Real Estate Assessment Center in coordination with the Office of Field Operations to assess the lead-based paint hazard reduction activities performed at the 19 developments associated with 18 public Read More
Open Recommendation