Develop and implement a process to ensure that the reserve for replacement requirements in HUD’s business documents are consistent for all converted properties.
2025-CH-0001 | December 18, 2024
HUD’s Office of Multifamily Needs To Improve Its Oversight of PBRA and FHA-Insured PBV Properties Converted Under RAD
Housing
- Status2025-CH-0001-001-IOpenClosed
- Status2025-CH-0001-001-JOpenClosed
Develop and implement a plan to review the reserve for replacement accounts for all converted properties from the date on which the account was established to the date of the review. Based on the reviews completed, HUD should take appropriate actions to ensure that reserve for replacement accounts are appropriately funded or determine whether overfunded accounts should have the deposits suspended for a specified period.
- Status2025-CH-0001-002-AOpenClosed
Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that servicing lenders comply with HUD time requirements in scheduling initial inspections of FHA-insured RAD PBV properties.
- Status2025-CH-0001-002-BOpenClosedPriorityPriority
We believe these open recommendations, if implemented, will have the greatest impact on helping HUD achieve its mission to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.
Determine an appropriate timeframe in which non-FHA-insured PBRA properties converted under RAD should be initially inspected, work with REAC to ensure that inspections are ordered and completed within that timeframe, and update HUD’s publicly available and internal guidance to ensure consistent messaging in accordance with HUD’s determination.
Status
HUD has not provided a draft plan for corrective action yet.
Analysis
Determining the appropriate timeframe for initial inspections would result in the timely identification and correction of life-threatening and non-life-threatening deficiencies.
The recommended corrective action has the potential to directly impact the health and safety of families.
2025-KC-0001 | December 02, 2024
FHA’s Office Of Asset Sales Did Not Have Adequate Information To Measure Its Loan Sales’ Program Success
Housing
- Status2025-KC-0001-001-AOpenClosed
Update the Conveyance, Assignment, and Assumption Agreement to require purchasers to report final property outcomes and identifying information including those of third-party purchasers when applicable.
- Status2025-KC-0001-001-BOpenClosed
Enhance data collection and processing controls to ensure consistency in reporting data.
- Status2025-KC-0001-001-COpenClosed
Enhance existing demonstration guidance within the Conveyance, Assignment, and Assumption Agreement to provide further detail regarding documentation retention requirements.
2025-FO-0003 | November 15, 2024
Audit of the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Fiscal Years 2024 and 2023 Financial Statements
Community Planning and Development
- Status2025-FO-0003-001-BOpenClosed
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations of Community Planning and Development enhance CPDs existing Grant Accrual Standard Operating Procedures to strengthen governance within CPD and to effectively work within the framework established by the OCFO in recommendation 1A. The updated procedures should include increased ownership and oversight over the reviews, authorizations, approvals, and changes to the CPD grant accrual estimates and methodology.
2023-OE-0007a | October 31, 2024
FHA Catalyst Personally Identifiable Information Risk Management in a Zero Trust Environment (2023-OE-0007a) Interim Evaluation Report
Housing
- Status2023-OE-0007a-01OpenClosed
Housing should include zero trust requirements as part of the Housing Strategic Roadmap for Housing Modernization.
- Status2023-OE-0007a-02OpenClosed
Housing should refine access controls within the FHA Catalyst modules that are dynamic, are tailored to user actions, and require continuous reauthentication to ensure that users have access only to information needed.
- Status2023-OE-0007a-03OpenClosed
Housing should coordinate with HUD’s SOC to a. Ensure that FHA Catalyst user behavior monitoring logs are regularly captured and adequately reviewed for discrepancies in user activities. b. Establish program office responsibility for the log review process.
2024-LA-0001 | September 17, 2024
HUD Grantees Need to Enhance Monitoring of ESG CARES Act Subrecipients
Community Planning and Development
- Status2024-LA-0001-001-AOpenClosed
Take corrective action for the subrecipient monitoring and agreement issues cited for eight of the ESG-CV grantees reviewed, and provide additional guidance and technical assistance as needed to ensure that they understand requirements.
- Status2024-LA-0001-001-BOpenClosed
Develop and implement additional subrecipient monitoring training and guidance for all ESG grantees.
2024-NY-0002 | August 09, 2024
HUD Addressed Multifamily Mortgage Application Processing Delays, but Additional Action Is Needed To Manage Future Backlogs
Housing
- Status2024-NY-0002-001-AOpenClosed
Require that the PLUS system for receiving, processing, and assigning applications tracks applications and captures application intake, screening, and status, including key dates; captures data on the type of underwriter used; includes a portal for receiving documents and communicating with lenders; and generates FHA loan numbers. This will allow HUD to identify, monitor, and address processing delays and issues on a continuous basis; evaluate its performance and processes; and manage future challenges.
- Status2024-NY-0002-001-BOpenClosed
Update policies and procedures to include methods that will be used when applications exceed underwriter capacity, align intake and screening processes, and explain when timeframes will be enforced, including in PLUS.
- Status2024-NY-0002-001-COpenClosed
Issue an industry wide letter to reinforce how intake, screening, and enforcement of timeframes will be handled.
2024-LA-1002 | August 06, 2024
The City and County of Honolulu Should Improve Its Fraud Risk Management Practices for Its ESG CARES Act Program
Community Planning and Development
- Status2024-LA-1002-001-AOpenClosed
Improve or enhance its antifraud efforts for the ESG program and incorporate fraud risk management practices that are consistent with the best practices identified in the Government Accountability Office’s A Framework for Managing Fraud Risks in Federal Programs and Chief Financial Officers Council and Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Services’ Antifraud Playbook.
- Status2024-LA-1002-001-BOpenClosed
Obtain training or technical assistance as needed on the implementation of fraud risk management practices.
2024-LA-1001 | August 02, 2024
Housing and Community Development Should Improve Its Fraud Risk Management Practices for Its ESG CARES Act Program
Community Planning and Development
- Status2024-LA-1001-001-AOpenClosed
Establish a separate fraud risk management framework or evaluate and build upon its ERM framework by incorporating fraud risk management practices that are consistent with the principles of GAO’s Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (Green Book), including developing a fraud risk management framework in alignment with best practices identified in GAO’s A Framework for Managing Fraud Risks in Federal Programs and the Chief Financial Officers Council’s Antifraud Playbook.
- Status2024-LA-1001-001-BOpenClosed
Obtain training or technical assistance on the implementation of fraud risk management practices consistent with the principles of GAO’s Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (Green Book).