We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations establish a monitoring tracking system, organized on a CPD field office basis, to incorporate and track internal and external data and provide an immediate, multiyear quantification of grantees, grants, and dollar value for both monitored and not monitored grantees, allowing immediate assessment of monitoring findings, resolutions, and coverage individually and in total.
Publication Report
2018-FW-0001 | June 26, 2018
CPD’s Risk Assessment and Monitoring Program Did Not Provide Effective Oversight of Federal Funds
We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Community Planning and Development’s (CPD) risk assessment and monitoring of its grantees. We initiated this assignment due to significant findings previously… moreRelated Recommendations
Community Planning and Development
- Status2018-FW-0001-001-AOpenClosedClosed on April 02, 2021$907,982,874.00Funds Put to Better Use
Recommendations that funds be put to better use estimate funds that could be used more efficiently. For example, recommendations that funds be put to better use could result in reductions in spending, deobligation of funds, or avoidance of unnecessary spending.
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations develop and implement policies to require CPD headquarters’ substantive involvement and responsibility in the risk assessment and monitoring function, including (1) oversight of risk assessment, including ensuring that all required grantees have a risk assessment performed; (2) review of annual work plans; (3) evaluation of monitoring performance and findings; (4) institution of functional supervisory controls; and (5) enforcement of field office compliance with risk analysis and monitoring requirements. If OFM does this, a minimum of $907 million in Federal funds could be put to better use by more consistently and accurately assessing risk and monitoring grantees.