Require the State to implement a control, including documenting exceptions, to ensure that all contracts that exceed 5 years are approved by the Corporation.

Revise and update the Authority’s policies to ensure that environmental investigations are completed for EBLL cases and ensure that HUD and residents are notified of the results of environmental investigations in a timely manner.

Ensure that it provides appropriate and accurate lead-based paint disclosures to prospective and current tenants.

The AWP highlights audits and evaluations the OIG will initiate in FY 2026, as well as ongoing projects that continue from prior years. All of the projects span HUD programs and operations and take into account HUD’s Top Management and Performance Challenges we identified through our past oversight Read More

Implement a process and procedure to ensure a complete and accurate Missing Documents Report is submitted to the General Ledger Division for recording a monthly reclassification entry between HECM loans receivable and accounts receivable.

Implement an enhanced review process to ensure the receipt of partial claim documents is accurately marked in SMART so that the Missing Documents Report will be accurate.

Implement comprehensive controls to (a) identify all Single Family partial claims related to terminated first mortgages, (b) update the system record of partial claims that will become due and payable when the refinanced mortgages are terminated, and (c) remove partial claims related to terminated Read More

Implement procedures to (a) ensure all HECM loan terminations are accurately reported, (b) prevent HECM terminated loans from being included in the loans receivable balance, and (c) prevent inspections and tax payments on HECM terminated loans.

Develop a process to (1) monitor receipt of original first notes and mortgages and recorded assignments, (2) follow up with mortgagees who fail to submit documents by the required deadline, and (3) initiate repurchase requests for HECM mortgagees who fail to meet assignment requirements.

Provide support to show that the performance history element was factored as part of the grantees’ capacity to manage the grants awarded through the 2025 NOFO.

Reassess, establish, and incorporate a maximum review period of grantee-submitted QPRs into an SOP. Inform staff of the review period to ensure consistency and understanding of HUD’s expectations of the time to review grantee-submitted QPRs. In addition, establish formal guidance and implement Read More

Consider grantees’ suggestions to improve training sessions, technical assistance, and communication of information that grantees can use to help meet agreed-upon performance benchmarks. In addition, provide documentation to support the guidance OLHCHH plans to share with grantees to ensure agreed- Read More

Recapture $3,775,916 in undisbursed grant funds not used to meet agreed-upon performance benchmarks for the two identified ‘High Risk’ grantees whose period of performance ended in June and July 2025, respectively. In addition, identify those grantees that received 2020 through 2022 LBPHC and LHRD Read More

Provide assistance to the nine identified ‘High Risk’ grantees that will help meet established performance benchmarks to be completed by the end of the respective grants in 2026.

Notify grantees of HUD’s updated ‘High Risk’ designation criteria and HUD’s expectations when designated as ‘High Risk.’

Reevaluate ‘High Risk’ designation criteria as part of the SOP update and reimplement its updated ‘High Risk’ criteria to reflect how grantees will be designated as ‘High Risk’ within the program. In addition, train OLHCHH staff on the new ‘High Risk’ designation criteria stated in the SOP.

Conduct risk assessments in public housing without adequate lead-based paint inspection documentation to ascertain the existence of lead-based paint hazards.

Implement adequate policies and procedures regarding the management of lead-based paint in its public housing, including maintaining adequate records, completing interim controls, and conducting ongoing maintenance for lead-based paint hazards.

Implement an ongoing maintenance program for lead-based paint to ensure unabated and “lead-safe” units remain hazard free.

Abate or implement interim control measures to reduce the risk of exposure to lead-based paint hazards identified through risk assessments.