We audited the Loudoun County Department of Family Services’ Housing Choice Voucher program because (1) we received a complaint alleging housing quality standards problems with a housing unit participating in the County’s program, (2) the County had 688 vouchers and received more than $6.4 million in fiscal year 2016, and (3) we had not audited its program.  Our audit objective was to determine whether the County ensured that its Housing Choice Voucher program units met the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General audited HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development’s (CPD) process for making changes to its programs, policies, and operations.  We initiated the audit because of concerns we had with HUD’s disaster recovery delivery sequence and duplication of benefits policies during a previous external audit (Audit Report 2016-DE-1003).

We audited Mental Health Systems, Inc.’s (MHS) Supportive Housing Program and Continuum of Care direct grants from the U.S.

We reviewed the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust’s Continuum of Care Program because our office had not audited this entity.  In addition, this assignment was in accordance with our annual audit plan and the U.S.

We audited the Yorkville Cooperative’s administration of its U.S.

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We audited the U.S.

We audited the Housing Authority of the City of Tulsa’s administration of its Section 8 program.  We selected the Authority based on reports generated by the U.S.

This report presents the results of our audit of the U.S.

The Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) manages more than $14 billion in disaster recovery funding that Congress appropriated through the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 (Public Law (PL) 113-2).  CPD distributed the funds to 34 grantees as Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery grants. PL 113-2 requires grantees to establish adequate procedures to detect fraud, waste, and abuse of disaster recovery funds.  To assist grantees in meeting this statutory requirement, CPD required disaster grantees to establish an internal audit activ