The Owner of Luther Towers II, Wilmington, DE, Did Not Manage Its HUD-Insured Project in Accordance With Its Regulatory Agreement and HUD Requirements
Provide training and technical assistance to the owner’s executive director and staff to ensure compliance with the terms of its regulatory agreement and applicable HUD requirements.
HUD Did Not Adequately Administer Its Housing Counseling Program
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling identify additional housing counseling agencies that were classified as reapproved when it had not completed a performance review upon expiration of the approved period and determine whether they are properly qualified to provide counseling services to consumers.
HUD Did Not Adequately Administer Its Housing Counseling Program
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling obtain and provide documentation for the four housing counseling agency reapprovals and the three housing counseling agency voucher approvals to show that the $1,310,719 in Housing Counseling Grant funds5 disbursed was for eligible and supported costs or repay from non-Federal funds any amount that cannot be supported.
HUD Did Not Adequately Administer Its Housing Counseling Program
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling update its policies and procedures to ensure consistency and adequacy of the agency approval, performance review, voucher approval, and termination and posttermination processes. Specifically, the updates should ensure that the deficiencies identified in this report are acknowledged and corrected going forward, including (1) updating the Housing Counseling Program…
HUD Did Not Adequately Administer Its Housing Counseling Program
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling ensure that the new Housing Counseling Agency Management System provides HUD with the ability to adequately oversee the work of its staff and track important housing counseling agency milestones, including HUD approval expirations and required terminations.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Transfer $78,786 ($22,601 $56,185) from its Family Self-Sufficiency account to its Housing Choice Voucher Program account for the overfunded and forfeited escrows.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Support or reimburse its Housing Choice Voucher Program $120,067 from non-Federal funds for unsupported graduation disbursements.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse its Housing Choice Voucher Program $12,460 from non-Federal funds for the ineligible disbursements.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Transfer $3,801 from its Housing Choice Voucher Program account to its Family Self-Sufficiency account for the underfunded escrows.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse one participant, $547 from its Family Self-Sufficiency program for the underpaid graduation payment.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Implement procedures and controls to ensure that documentation required by HUD and the Authority’s own action plan is correctly completed, documented, and updated.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Ensure that its staff is appropriately trained and familiar with HUD’s requirements and its program action plan regarding the administration of its program to ensure that (1) participants’ individual training and services plans are complete and contain appropriate goals to assist the family in achieving self-sufficiency, (2) participants are notified of their escrow account balances at least annually, and (3) contracts of participation are…
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Ensure that its newly created policies and procedures include a process for ensuring that (1) escrow balances are correctly calculated and disbursed, (2) escrow accounts and disbursements are fully supported, and (3) forfeited escrow account funds are returned to the Housing Choice Voucher Program as required.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Determine the amount of the $445,122 in coordinator grant funds that were appropriately earned by the Authority for meeting requirements and paid to the coordinators while performing duties of the Family Self-Sufficiency program. The funds that are determined to be unearned should be reimbursed to HUD from non-Federal funds.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse its program $20,450 from non-Federal funds ($10,331 $10,119 in associated administrative fees) for the overpayment of housing assistance due to inappropriate calculations of housing assistance.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse the appropriate households $3,590 from program funds for the underpayment of housing assistance due to inappropriate calculations.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Support or reimburse its program $18,638 from non-Federal funds for the unsupported payments of housing assistance cited in this finding.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Enter into repayment agreements to pursue collection from the applicable households or reimburse its program $6,367 from non-Federal funds for the overpayment of housing assistance due to unreported or underreported income
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that housing assistance payments are appropriately calculated and supported and that repayment agreements are created to recover overpaid housing assistance when unreported income is discovered during the examination process to ensure that $453,999 ($351,060 $102,939) in program funds is appropriately used for future payments.
The Housing Authority of the County of Lake, Grayslake, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's and Its Own Requirements Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse its program $3,117 from non-Federal funds for the ineligible program expenditures.