Develop and implement guidance to communicate appropriate ways for grantees to calculate household income.
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,… moreRelated Recommendations
Community Planning and Development
- Status2017-PH-0001-001-AOpenClosed$227,260.00Questioned 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.
- Status2017-PH-0001-001-BOpenClosed
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.
Reemphasize to field offices the importance of using the correct monitoring guide to monitor direct home-ownership assistance activities.