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Public and Indian Housing

  • 2020-LA-1002-002-B
    Closed on July 22, 2022
    $33,415
    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.

    Support the reasonableness of the $33,415 Genesis contract or repay any amount that cannot be supported from non-Federal funds.

  • 2020-LA-1002-002-C
    Closed on August 24, 2021

    Establish and implement additional procedures and controls to ensure that City personnel responsible for administering procurement on the Authority’s behalf follow procurement and contracting requirements and maintain applicable supporting documentation in accordance with HUD requirements.

  • 2020-LA-1002-003-A
    Closed on September 30, 2020
    $5,648
    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.

    Repay the Housing Choice Voucher Program $5,648 from non-Federal funds for the unallowable expenses.

  • 2020-LA-1002-003-B
    Closed on December 29, 2020

    Develop and implement procedures and controls to ensure that ineligible food costs are not charged to the Program.

Housing

  • 2020-FW-0001-001-A
    Closed on September 30, 2021

    We recommend that the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs enforce written policies and procedures to ensure that the verification and payment of housing assistance payment subsidies for properties it subsidizes are based on accurate and supported information.

  • 2020-FW-0001-001-B
    Closed on September 30, 2021

    We recommend that the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs establish and implement policies to ensure effective contract administration, including providing funding approvals for project-based contract administrators in a timely manner.

  • 2020-FW-0001-001-C
    Closed on May 25, 2022

    We recommend that the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs develop contingency policies and procedures to ensure that the properties it subsidizes receive adequate and verifiable continuous monitoring.

Housing

  • 2020-AT-0802-001-A
    Closed on April 13, 2021

    Update and implement the internal procedures for processing housing conversion actions to require documentation, including but not limited to expired contracts or financial documentation from HUD’s Line of Credit Control System, to show when the last payment was made for the contract to support the proposed housing conversion actions before allotment of tenant protection funds.

  • 2020-AT-0802-001-B
    Closed on April 13, 2021

    Update and implement internal procedures to require verification that tenant protection funds were not previously allotted for the same type of housing conversion action.

  • 2020-AT-0802-001-C
    Closed on April 30, 2020

    For the remaining retroactive RAD conversion not completed, to take steps, including but not limited to maintaining adequate approval documentation to ensure that it enforces its requirement that the tenant protection assistance is provided to tenants before the submission of the RAD application.

  • 2020-AT-0802-001-D
    Closed on April 30, 2020

    For the remaining retroactive RAD conversion not completed, to take steps including but not limited to training staff responsible for reviewing and approving RAD applications to ensure that it enforces its requirement that the tenant protection assistance is provided to tenants before the submission of the RAD application.

Chief Procurement Officer

  • 2020-FO-0003-004-D
    Closed on June 04, 2020

    Assign independent, contract officers to review and certify the initiating contract buyer’s compliance with policies for initiating and authorizing interagency agreements and later modifications for all amounts in accordance with Acquisition Instruction 13-07, HUD Contracting Officers.

  • 2020-FO-0003-004-E
    Closed on August 09, 2021

    Ensure that contracting officers and OCPO field offices review and follow the records management policies and procedures, including completing and signing Forms 7600A and 7600B, to ensure consistency among contract officers approving interagency agreements in the procurement system of record.

Community Planning and Development

  • 2020-FO-0003-001-O
    Closed on September 17, 2024

    Collaborate with OCFO to review methodologies used to produce grant accrual estimates, to include testing and verification of the resulting accrual estimates.

  • 2020-FO-0003-003-A
    Closed on April 15, 2022

    Implement information security controls over the Section 108 loan guarantee database that prevent and detect unauthorized changes to program data (or implement an updated Section 108 loan guarantee database with information security controls that prevent and detect unauthorized changes to program data).

Housing

  • 2020-FO-0003-004-C
    Closed on May 11, 2021

    Develop and implement policy and procedures for the incremental obligation process used for project-based Section 8 funds, including documentation for determining the incremental amounts and controls to review the amounts for accuracy.

Government National Mortgage Association

  • 2020-FO-0002-001-A
    Closed on August 03, 2020

    Test whether a cumulative housing price appreciation (HPA) variable should be added to the probability of prepayment, probability of default, foreclosure timeline, buyout time models, and cure rate assumptions. Ginnie Mae should provide an analysis if it believes that adding an HPA variable would not be appropriate to support its position.

  • 2020-FO-0002-001-B
    Closed on August 03, 2020

    Develop and implement policies and procedures to require a sufficiently granular decomposition analysis that can adequately explain the impact of all the model changes made.

  • 2020-FO-0002-001-C
    Closed on August 03, 2020

    Develop and implement policies and procedures or enhance or clarify, as appropriate, existing policies and procedures that will require additional analyses whenever thresholds are breached or other analyses indicate potential modeling issues.

  • 2020-FO-0002-001-D
    Closed on August 03, 2020

    Document the economic rationale behind unintuitive model coefficients to support that the unintuitive relationships are appropriate.