Update its records retention policy to meet HUD’s records retention requirements and notify its NSP subrecipients of the documentation retention requirements for the NSP grants.

Develop a retention strategy for its subrecipients to ensure that documentation is readily available for review.

Conduct onsite management reviews of the projects to supplement the onsite use restriction agreement compliance monitoring reviews to ensure that the projects are operated in accordance with HUD’s requirements.

Work with the Office of Multifamily Asset Management and Portfolio Oversight to develop and issue guidance on requirements in the grant and use agreements that would benefit the grantees’ board members and staff of the projects’ management agents.

Submit all supporting documentation showing the eligibility and propriety of the $47,720 in unsupported matching contributions towards the ESG program or reimburse the ESG program from non-Federal funds.

Reconcile the data included in its CAPER with the data in its financial management system and correct any inaccurate information reported to HUD.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that its required matching contributions are properly supported.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that it reports data through its CAPERs using data from its own financial management system instead of data from HUD’s information system.

Track and ensure that Volunteers returns to the Treasury any funds recovered through the ongoing litigation pertaining to the Yabucoa housing project.

Deobligate and recapture $1,440,165 in undrawn Section 202 funds assigned to the project.

Require Volunteers to reimburse to the United States Treasury $140,000 from non-Federal funds for ineligible project construction costs charged to the Section 202 project.

Return to the Puerto Rico Department of Housing $1,057,467, plus any interest earned, for the duplicate special escrow fund payments it received.

Implement procedures to ensure that deficiencies identified during the REAC inspections have been corrected and meet industry standards.

Ensure that timely physical condition inspections of all Section 232 program facilities are performed. (This expands on the Office of Evaluation’s third recommendation in report number 2017-OE-0011.)

Reimplement the REAC physical condition inspections for the SNFs that were exempted from routine physical inspections by 24 CFR 200.855.

Develop and implement an inspection process for the Section 232 program that better reflects those properties’ physical conditions and how those properties differ from other properties REAC inspects (for example, multifamily properties).

Ensure that all areas of the properties are inspected, including the roofs and all buildings located on the property that is insured by HUD.

We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development require the County to strengthen its policies and procedures to ensure that environmental reviews and environmental review exemptions are completed and documented before HOME funds are committed.

We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Newark, NJ, Office of Community Planning and Development require the County to strengthen its policies and procedures to ensure that activity address information in IDIS is current as required.

We recommend that the Director of HUD’s New York Office of Public and Indian Housing require the Authority to obtain retroactive approval from HUD for the $815,398 in outstanding unauthorized loans made to its nonprofit entity or reimburse its Public Housing Operating Fund from non-Federal funds for any amount for which it does not obtain approval. If approval is obtained, HUD should also require the Authority to execute a loan agreement with…