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  • Recommendation Number: 2017-PH-0001-001-B
  • Status: Open
  • Date Issued: September 05, 2017

Provide guidance to field office staff to clarify the statutory requirements in 42 U.S.C. 5305(a)(24) regarding a principal reduction and a downpayment for direct home-ownership assistance activities.

Publication Report

2017-PH-0001 | September 05, 2017

HUD Can Improve Its Oversight of Community Development Block Grant Direct Home-Ownership Assistance Activities

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant program’s direct home-ownership assistance activities.  We conducted the audit because it was included in our audit plan based on recent HUD,… more

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    Status
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      Closed
    2017-PH-0001-001-A
    $227,260.00
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A] resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B] that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost]; or (C] that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Direct responsible field offices to require the grantees identified by the audit to either provide documentation to support $227,260 in unsupported payments or reimburse their programs from non-Federal funds for costs they cannot support.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2017-PH-0001-001-C
    Closed on August 19, 2019

    Develop and implement guidance to communicate appropriate ways for grantees to calculate household income.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2017-PH-0001-001-D
    Closed on August 19, 2019

    Reemphasize to field offices the importance of using the correct monitoring guide to monitor direct home-ownership assistance activities.