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 Needs To Improve Its Oversight of PBRA and FHA-Insured PBV Properties Converted Under RAD
Determine an appropriate timeframe in which non-FHA-insured Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) properties converted under the Rental Assistance Demonstration should be initially inspected, work with HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) to ensure that inspections are ordered and completed within that timeframe, and update HUD’s publicly available and internal guidance to ensure consistent messaging in accordance with HUD’s…
HUD Needs To Improve Its Oversight of PBRA and FHA-Insured PBV Properties Converted Under RAD
Develop and implement a plan to determine how to implement the risk-based approach to review the Rental Assistance Demonstration properties that have not had subsequent management and occupancy reviews (MORs) in more than 3 years and to require periodic MORs going forward.
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.
FY 2021 FISMA
Define and communicate policies and procedures to ensure that its products, system components, systems, and services comply with its cybersecurity and supply chain risk management (SCRM) requirements. This recommendation includes (a) identification and prioritization of externally provided systems (new and legacy), components, and services; (b) how HUD maintains awareness of its upstream suppliers; (c) the integration of acquisition…
Management Alert 2023-IG-001: Action Needed to Ensure That Assisted Property Owners, Including Public Housing Agencies, Comply with the Lead Safe Housing Rule
Update applicable requirements to require assisted property owners, including PHAs, to maintain adequate documentation to support their determinations that maintenance and hazard reduction activities that disturb surfaces with lead-based paint qualify for the de minimis exemption from the lead-safe work practices under the Lead Safe Housing Rule.
Opportunities Exist To Improve CPD's Oversight of and Monitoring Tools for Slow-Spending Grantees
Update its policies and procedures for tracking expenditures related to slow-spending grantees, including steps for assisting the grantees to expedite spending (including the grantee’s steps or actions to address slow spending), identifying the reasons for the delays with the grant, and documenting the outcome of its efforts.
HUD Needs To Improve Its Oversight of PBRA and FHA-Insured PBV Properties Converted Under RAD
Determine the appropriate timeframe for when initial management and occupancy reviews (MORs) should be completed for all properties that convert under the Rental Assistance Demonstration and issue updated guidance that includes a system to track the timeliness of initial MORs.
Approximately 31,500 FHA-Insured Loans Did Not Maintain the Required Flood Insurance Coverage in 2020
Develop a control to detect loans that did not maintain the required flood insurance to put $1.5 billion to better use by avoiding potential future costs to the FHA insurance fund from inadequately insured properties.
HUD Remains Challenged To Serve the Maximum Number of Eligible Families Due to Decreasing Utilization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Establish and implement a plan for the unused and unfunded vouchers to mitigate or prevent additional vouchers from becoming unused and unfunded […]
HUD Needs To Improve Its Oversight of PBRA and FHA-Insured PBV Properties Converted Under RAD
Complete the initial management and occupancy reviews (MORs) for the Rental Assistance Demonstration properties that have not had an initial MOR.
Opportunities Exist To Improve HUD's Hiring Process
Create and implement a knowledge management strategy, such as developing standard operating procedures, reference sheets, and program office fact sheets.
HUD's Processes for Managing IT Acquisitions
Evaluate IT acquisition process workflows and identify ways to simplify the processes, facilitate more effective stakeholder coordination across offices, and create efficiencies when possible.
Improvements Are Needed to HUD's Processes for Monitoring EBLLs and Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Public Housing
PIH in coordination with other HUD offices as necessary, research and address potential causes of the variance in the number of EBLL cases among States on the EBLL tracker and identify solutions that are within HUD's control.
Improvements Are Needed to HUD's Processes for Monitoring EBLLs and Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Public Housing
Update HUD regulations, policies, and procedures following the regulatory process required by the amended Lead Safe Housing Rule, in consideration of CDC's lowered BLRV of 3.5 ug/dL.
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Update its policies and procedures to define how Ginnie Mae intends to identify and evaluate prospective buyers to ensure its ability to absorb the extinguished portfolio before executing the purchase and sale agreement.
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Update its policy and procedures to define its authority for marketing troubled issuer portfolios and the conditions that must exist to extinguish issuers using rapid relocation.
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Update its policy and procedures to define what type of information Ginnie Mae may disclose and how it will handle protected information before extinguishment.
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Update its Policies and procedures to define how Ginnie Mae will determine the portfolio value and price before Sale.
Improvements are Needed in HUD's Fraud Risk Management Program
Perform a complete agency-wide fraud risk assessment (which incorporates the fraud risk assessments performed at the program level) and use the results to develop and implement an agency-wide plan to move HUD’s fraud risk management program out of the ad hoc phase.