Require Englewood Apartments’ owner to further develop a formalized process to use when running and reviewing EIV reports.

Require Englewood Apartments’ owner to ensure that the management agent and staff complete EIV training to ensure that staff members understand their duties and both HUD’s and Englewood Apartments’ own requirements.

Monitor Englewood Apartments to ensure that it properly runs and reviews the EIV reports.

Ensure that Englewood Apartments’ owner and its identity-of-interest management agent provide necessary oversight to its onsite staff.

Provide more detailed guidance to HUD reviewers on benchmarks for each performance standard.

Update the PAR template to ensure that HUD reviewers include required information.

Assess HUD reviewers’ skills and readiness to determine the appropriate frequency of training.

Provide more detailed guidance to HUD reviewers and FHEO regional directors on when and under what circumstances to recommend or issue a PIP.

Conduct criminal record background checks in accordance with its policies and procedures to ensure that adult members of households for whom the Authority made housing assistance payments totaling $4,920,685 were eligible to participate in the program or repay its program from non-Federal funds Read More

Develop and implement controls to ensure that criminal records checks are conducted, according to policy, at application and when family composition changes.

Repay its program $19,520 from non-Federal funds for the ineligible housing assistance payments made.

Correct the errors in the files of the noncitizen families identified by the audit.

Develop and implement controls to ensure that it follows policies and procedures found in its administrative plan for verification of citizenship or eligible noncitizen status.

Develop and implement controls to ensure that assistance is properly prorated for eligible family members of noncitizen students.

Review the citizenship documentation for all adult household members residing in assisted housing and verify correct entry to applicable HUD systems.

Correct the waiting list errors identified by the audit.

Develop and implement controls to ensure that it follows policies and procedures to award and verify preference points for program applicants as required by its administrative plan.

Train staff on the requirements for which it will develop and implement controls as a result of the recommendations made in this audit report.

Refer the Authority to the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity for a review of the Authority’s waiting list to ensure that all areas comply with HUD requirements.

Certify, along with the owners of the 63 units cited in this finding, that the applicable housing quality standards violations have been corrected.