We audited the City of Los Angeles Housing Department (Department) as a result of an earlier audit of the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) affordability monitoring requirements and inspections of HOME-assisted rental units, which detected four projects that may not have been rehabilitated as intended. Our audit objective was to determine whether HOME funds were used as intended to rehabilitate the four projects and in accordance with HOME requirements. We found that the Department did not always ensure that its HOME-assisted rehabilitation work was complete and in accordance with HOME requirements. Of the four projects, we found one project in which the Department paid $22,466 in HOME funds for incomplete rehabilitation work. In addition, it did not maintain agreements that described the use of HOME funds, such as the tasks to be performed. We recommend that HUD require the Department to properly support or repay the questioned costs from nonfederal funds, and implement revised operating policies and procedures.
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