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HUD OIG is conducting an evaluation of housing conditions at an Oregon based Public Housing Authority (PHA). All HUD-assisted housing units are subject to meet quality standards for decent, safe, and sanitary housing. Our evaluation objective is to determine whether an Oregon based PHA provided decent, safe, and sanitary housing at its developments.
We are auditing HUD's compliance with the Geospatial Data Act. The Act requires the 16 covered agencies be audited every two years. The objective of our audit is to determine whether HUD has complied with the 13 responsibilities stated in the Act, regarding its collection, production, acquisition, maintenance, distribution, use, and preservation of geospatial data.
We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Residential Care Facilities’ (ORCF), oversight of Section 232 residential care facilities’ mortgage insurance program. We performed this audit because HUD-insured residential care facility loan defaults were rising. As of June 2024, 167 of the 3,670 HUD-insured Section 232 borrowers, or nearly 5 percent, defaulted on their mortgages. These 167 loans had an unpaid principal balance of more than $1.1 billion.
We audited the Government National Mortgage Association’s (Ginnie Mae) management of its portfolio of federally guaranteed mortgage-backed securities (MBS). We initiated this audit because of our internal monitoring of the Ginnie Mae portfolio as well as the issuance of a Financial Stability Oversight Council report in 2024 on the rising risks presented by nonbank mortgage companies. Our audit objective was to assess Ginnie Mae's evaluation of nonbank issuer concentration risk.
Fraud poses a significant risk to the integrity of federal programs and erodes public trust in government. For the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) disaster recovery programs, fraud results in communities and individuals not receiving needed assistance to recover from and mitigate future disasters. Departments are required by law to develop and maintain governance structures, controls, and processes to safeguard resources and assets.
In August 2024, we issued an audit report on the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s (HCD) fraud risk management practices, finding that HCD was not adequately prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud due to the lack of focus it placed on fraud risks and establishing a robust fraud risk management framework for the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act funding for the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud (2024-LA-1001, issued August 2, 2024).
HUD OIG has contracted with an Independent Public Accounting (IPA) firm to conduct the annual GNMA financial statement audit. The IPA's audit objectives are to (1) express an opinion on whether GNMA’s fiscal year 2026 financial statements are fairly presented and adequately disclosed, in all material respects, in accordance with U.S.
