HUD Can Improve Its Efforts To Meet the National Drug Control Strategy Reporting Requirements
Develop and execute a written agreement with ONDCP on the use of reporting annual numeric targets for the RHP performance measures that would meet future reporting requirements and comply with the Strategy and timeframe for implementation.
HUD Can Improve Its Efforts To Meet the National Drug Control Strategy Reporting Requirements
Establish and implement formal policies and procedures that include (1) the ONDCP reporting process between HUD’s OCFO and CPD, (2) the process for reporting to ONDCP, (3) references to any written agreements between HUD and ONDCP, and (4) a requirement for periodic reviews of these written agreements to address any changes in administration, roles, responsibilities, reporting programs, reporting requirements, and reporting methodologies.
HUD's Office of Housing Counseling Has Challenges Measuring the Impact of Prepurchase and Postpurchase Homeownership Counseling
More clearly define successful prepurchase and postpurchase homeownership counseling outcomes and use these definitions to help establish performance metrics and benchmarks for HUD’s Office of Housing Counseling and HUD-approved housing counseling agencies. This should include the types of successful outcomes under the Homeownership Initiative Grant, as well as other positive outcomes for clients that do not involve immediate homeownership.
HUD's Office of Housing Counseling Has Challenges Measuring the Impact of Prepurchase and Postpurchase Homeownership Counseling
Implement routine client outcome data analysis to identify trends, quantify performance metrics and benchmarks, and measure the impact of prepurchase and postpurchase counseling on advancing homeownership. This should include routine analysis that HUD’s Office of Housing Counseling can implement based on data collected as well as continuing to pursue an updated housing counseling data system to help overcome client outcome data limitations.
HUD's Office of Housing Counseling Has Challenges Measuring the Impact of Prepurchase and Postpurchase Homeownership Counseling
Enhance monitoring of HUD-approved housing counseling agencies’ performance, to include progress toward the established performance metrics and benchmarks.
Audit Memorandum-2025-FO-0802
HUD Open Obligations Review Results
Deobligate the 835 administrative obligations totaling $38,525,836.88 identified for deobligation during the fiscal year 2024 OOR that had not been deobligated as of February 28, 2025.
Audit Memorandum-2025-FO-0802
HUD Open Obligations Review Results
Deobligate the 101 program obligations totaling $1,967,991.45 identified for deobligation
during the fiscal year 2024 OOR that had not been deobligated as of February 28, 2025.
HUD Should Better Track Elevated Blood Lead Levels in HUD-Assisted Multifmaily Housing
Develop and implement a policy that clearly defines roles and responsibilities for Office of Multifamily Housing Programs’ staff for EBLL-related requirements, including the oversight of property owners’ compliance with these requirements.
HUD Should Better Track Elevated Blood Lead Levels in HUD-Assisted Multifmaily Housing
Establish processes to track reported EBLLs for the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs to easily identify the status of owners’ remediation efforts for units that were the source of the confirmed EBLL.
HUD Did Not Comply with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019
Develop a standard operating procedure to ensure that the OCFO is 1) monitoring the DNP Computer Matching agreement to ensure continuity, 2) reporting accurately on its DNP matching, and 3) working with program offices to adjudicate any payments that are identified as potentially improper during the computer matching process.
HUD Did Not Comply with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019
Work with Multifamily Housing to investigate the 11 of 24 entities with expired SAM.gov registrations to determine if those entities should have received payments totaling $212,208,450 and perform the required follow-up actions once a determination is made.
HUD's Office of Single Family Housing Did Not Consistently Monitor Its Field Service Management Contractors' Property Preservation and Protection Services
Develop and implement uniform procedures for the FSM desk monitoring review, including a second level review for the FSM monitoring reviews and process for each inspection type.
HUD's Office of Single Family Housing Did Not Consistently Monitor Its Field Service Management Contractors' Property Preservation and Protection Services
Update the FSM monitoring plan and FSM qualitative monitoring database to: (a) clearly define the monitoring questions, (b) include a section for Q7 New Not Ready to Show (NRTS) properties, (c) define which routine inspection reports will be reviewed to conduct the routine inspection monitoring reviews and (d) develop a monitoring question to evaluate photo date stamps.
HUD's Office of Single Family Housing Did Not Consistently Monitor Its Field Service Management Contractors' Property Preservation and Protection Services
Ensure that program officials periodically provide all FSM CORs and staff involved in the monitoring process uniform property inspection training.
HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development Did Not Always Pursue Remedial Actions but Generally Implemented Sufficient Controls for Administering Its Neighborhood Stabilization Program
Work with 134 grantees (29 NSP1 and 105 NSP3) that reported missing expenditure deadlines in DRGR to ensure that expenditure information submitted is accurate and up to date.
State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Road Home Program, Did Not Ensure That Multiple Disbursements to a Single Damaged Residence Address Were Eligible
Either support or repay $441,027 disbursed for five unsupported grants.
State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Road Home Program, Did Not Ensure That Multiple Disbursements to a Single Damaged Residence Address Were Eligible
Repay $294,060 disbursed for three ineligible grants to its Road Home program.
State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Road Home Program, Did Not Ensure That Road Home Employees Were Eligible to Receive Additional Compensation Grants
Repay $228,930 disbursed for five ineligible grants to its Road Home program.
State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Road Home Program, Funded 418 Grants Coded Ineligible or Lacking an Eligibility Determination
Review all of the remaining 392 grants coded ineligible or lacking an eligibility determination and either support or repay $14,697,812 disbursed for them.
State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Road Home Program, Funded 418 Grants Coded Ineligible or Lacking an Eligibility Determination
Repay $743,344 disbursed for the 17 ineligible grants to its Road Home program.