HUD Needed to Improve Its Use of Its Integrated Disbursement and Information System To Oversee Its Community Development Block Grant Program
Direct responsible grantees to justify the use of $66,849,658 that it disbursed for cancelled Block Grant program activities or repay HUD from non-Federal funds.
HUD Did Not Adequately Support the Reasonableness of the Fee-for-Service Amounts or Monitor the Amounts Charged
Establish and implement procedures to reassess the safe harbor percentage and rates periodically to ensure that they are reasonable. HUD should retain the documentation justifying the calculation of those percentages and rates. In addition, HUD should assess the feasibility of requiring the agencies to periodically justify and retain documentation showing the reasonableness of using the maximum rates, or lower them as appropriate.
The Saginaw Housing Commission, Saginaw, MI, Did Not Administer Its Grant in Accordance With Recovery Act, HUD's, and Its Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Detroit Office of Public Housing require the Commission to reimburse $11,289 (the difference between the contract paid price of $33,638 and the lesser calculated cost of $ 22,349) from non-Federal funds to HUD for transmission to the U.S. Treasury for the cost savings cited in this finding.
The Municipality of Bayamon, PR, Did Not Always Ensure Compliance With HOME Investment Partnerships Program Requirements
Require the Municipality to develop and implement a financial management system in accordance with HUD requirements and ensure that $3,213,572 in HOME funds drawn from HUD between July 1, 2009, and December 31, 2011, can be traced to a level which ensures that such funds have not been used in violation of the restrictions and prohibitions of applicable statutes or reimburse the HOME program from non-Federal funds.(Footnote 2) Total…
The Municipality of Bayamon, PR, Did Not Always Ensure Compliance With HOME Investment Partnerships Program Requirements
Require the Municipality to submit supporting documentation showing the allocability and eligibility of $114,139 charged to the HOME program for project delivery costs or reimburse the program from non-Federal funds.
The Municipality of Bayamon, PR, Did Not Always Ensure Compliance With HOME Investment Partnerships Program Requirements
Determine the eligibility of the $537,773 disbursed for the Ciudad de Ensueño project and reevaluate the feasibility of the activity. (Footnote 9) Total disbursements of $538,973 were adjusted to consider $1,200 questioned in recommendation 1F. The Municipality must reimburse its HOME program from non-Federal funds if HUD determines the activity to have been terminated.
The Saginaw Housing Commission, Saginaw, MI, Did Not Always Administer Its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program in Accordance With HUD's and Its Own Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Detroit Office of Public Housing require the Commission to reimburse its program $21,650 form non-Federal funds for the overpayment of escrow funds to the participants cited in this finding.
The Saginaw Housing Commission, Saginaw, MI, Did Not Always Administer Its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program in Accordance With HUD's and Its Own Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Detroit Office of Public Housing require the Commission to provide supporting documentation or reimburse its program $17,008 from non-Federal funds for the unsupported payments cited in this finding.
Luzerne County, PA, Did Not Properly Evaluate, Underwrite, and Monitor a High-Risk Loan
Reimburse its business development loan program $5,999,894 from non-Federal funds for the ineligible expenditures related to the Hotel Sterling project.
The Municipality of Ponce, PR, Did Not Always Ensure Compliance With HOME Investment Partnerships Program Requirements
Develop and implement a financial management system in accordance with HUD requirements.
HUD Policies Did Not Always Ensure That Borrowers Complied With Program Residency Requirements
Implement control policies or procedures to at least annually coordinate with HUD’s Office of Public Housing to match data in the Single Family Data Warehouse to data in the Public Housing Information Center to prevent or mitigate instances of borrowers violating Program residency requirements by renting their properties to Section 8 voucher participants.
The Municipality of Arecibo, PR, Did Not Always Ensure Compliance With Community Development Block Grant Program Requirements
Require the Municipality to reimburse from non-federal funds $552,658 in unallowable and unallocated costs associated with the disbursement of salaries and fringe benefits of employees who did not perform duties directly related to carrying out activities charged with the program delivery costs.
The Municipality of Arecibo, PR, Did Not Always Ensure Compliance With Community Development Block Grant Program Requirements
Require the Municipality to provide support showing the allocability and eligibility of $1,077,577 spent on salaries and fringe benefits for employees who performed local government duties and multiple federally funded activities without properly allocating the costs directly related to carrying out each activity. Any amounts determined ineligible must be reimbursed to the Block Grant program from non-federal funds.
Nassau County, NY, Did Not Administer It's HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide documentation to justify the $189,322 in unsupported administrative and planning costs that was disbursed for employee salaries and fringe benefits. Any unsupported costs determined to be ineligible should be reimbursed from non-Federal funds.
Nassau County, NY, Did Not Administer It's HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to reimburse from non-Federal funds $78,530 for ineligible home-buyer rehabilitation and demolition costs charged to the HOME program.
Nassau County, NY, Did Not Administer It's HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to terminate the contract between the County and the Village of Freeport to rehabilitate and construct single-family public housing units to be sold to low-income residents. The remaining contract balance of $31,470 should be put to better use by reprogramming it for other eligible purposes.
Nassau County, NY, Did Not Administer It's HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to provide documentation to justify the $1,264 in unsupported project delivery costs. Any unsupported costs determined to be ineligible should be reimbursed from non-Federal funds.
Nassau County, NY, Did Not Administer It's HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to document their application review committee membership and provide evidence of the committee meetings and their evaluation and rating of subrecipients to fully support their funding recommendations.
Nassau County, NY, Did Not Administer It's HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to develop controls to ensure that the County’s recently established debarment verification procedures are implemented for all future procurement activity.
Nassau County, NY, Did Not Administer It's HOME Investment Partnerships Program in Accordance With HUD Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s New York Office of Community Planning and Development instruct County officials to develop controls that will ensure that the County’s decentralized record-keeping system is centralized for ready access to HOME documents.