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.
The State of Oklahoma Did Not Obligate and Spend Its Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funds in Accordance With Requirements
We recommend that the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs require the State to develop and implement policies and procedures to document and perform detailed review and testing to establish eligibility, existence, disaster event qualifications, reasonableness of cost estimates, prioritization, and fund allocation, both retroactively and prospectively, which would put $81,982,712 to better use.
HUD Did Not Comply with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019
Update HUD Handbook 1900.40, Do Not Pay policy, to clearly define the responsibilities for all parties and align it with current laws, processes, and procedures. This should include defining responsibilities for preaward and prepayment verification, and developing a process and governance structure to ensure that preaward and prepayment verification are consistently performed across HUD’s programs.
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Flat Branch Mortgage, Inc., Did Not Have a Sufficient Quality Control Program for FHA-Insured Loans
Update its QC plan and related processes and procedures to align with requirements for loan selection, including maintaining data and documenting how sample sizes and loan selections were determined.
Flat Branch Mortgage, Inc., Did Not Have a Sufficient Quality Control Program for FHA-Insured Loans
Update its QC plan and related processes and procedures to align with requirements for (1) loan file reviews, including requirements to obtain new credit reports, reverify borrower information, and obtain appraisal field reviews; (2) documenting review results, including maintaining data on findings; (3) assessment of findings; (4) mitigation of findings; (5) reporting findings internally to lender management; and (6) reporting findings to HUD…
Flat Branch Mortgage, Inc., Did Not Have a Sufficient Quality Control Program for FHA-Insured Loans
Provide annual training to its staff and management on HUD requirements for lender QC programs and provide proof of training to HUD.