COVID-19 Risk Awareness and Lessons Learned from Audits and Evaluations of the CDBG-DR Program
HUD OIG is performing research to help HUD's Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus pandemic (CDBG-CV) grantees be aware of known risks and lessons learned from audits and evaluations of the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program grants (CDBG-DR). The purpose of Read More
June 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#FW 20 0011
Texas Subrecipient's Hurricane Harvey Grant
HUD OIG is auditing a Texas subrecipient’s 2017 disaster program. In 2018, HUD directed its grantee to allocate $1.1 billion of its $5.024 billion Hurricane Harvey grant to the subrecipient. The subrecipient planned to operate 11 programs with its grant funds. The audit objective Read More
May 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#FW 20 0010
Texas Subrecipient's Hurricane Harvey Grant
HUD OIG is auditing a Texas subrecipient’s 2017 disaster program. In 2018, HUD directed its grantee to allocate $1.1 billion of its $5.024 billion Hurricane Harvey grant to the subrecipient. The subrecipient planned to operate 11 programs with its grant funds. The audit objective Read More
March 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#FW 20 0008
2015 Disaster Grant Funds for a Texas Grantee
HUD OIG is auditing a Texas grantee’s 2015 disaster program. In 2016 and 2017, HUD awarded the grantee more than $87 million to address unmet needs from disasters that occurred in 2015. The audit objective is to determine whether the grantee administered and expended its 2015 flood Read More
October 01, 2019
Work Start Notification
#FW 20 0007
HUD's Oversight of REAC Inspections
HUD OIG is auditing HUD's Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) inspection process. REAC's inspection process helps to ensure decent, safe and sanitary affordable public housing . The audit objectives are to (1) determine whether HUD's Real Estate Assessment Center ensured that, before Read More
October 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#CH 21 0007
HUD's Reopening of Offices to Employees During COVID-19
HUD OIG is reviewing HUD's plans to reopen its offices to its employees. This work is in response to a Congressional request. The review objective is to determine whether HUD is following (1) its Resuming Normal Operations Guide, COVID-19 Response, Headquarters and Field Offices; (2) Federal, State Read More
September 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#CH 20 0016
HUD’s Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) as a Performance Measure for the Housing Choice Voucher Program
HUD OIG is auditing HUD's Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP). HUD uses SEMAP to remotely measure the performance of the public housing agencies that administer the program. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HUD will soon resume issuing new SEMAP scores and the temporary Read More
September 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#CH 20 0014
HUD's Oversight of Lead Based Paint Remediation
HUD OIG is auditing HUD's oversight of lead based paint remediation. Lead-based paint hazards present a health risk to tenants, particularly children, and the effects of lead poisoning may permanently alter the lives of those exposed. The objective is to determine whether HUD has Read More
June 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#CH 20 0011
HUD’s Oversight of Voucher Utilization and Reallocation in the HCV Program
HUD OIG is auditing HUD’s Public and Indian Housing Office’s oversight of the Housing Choice Voucher Program, specifically the voucher utilization and reallocation activity. HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher program provides housing subsidies to counteract the lack of affordable housing for Read More
March 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#CH 20 0010
Puerto Rico Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (DR) program, Home Repair, Reconstruction or Relocation (R3) Program
HUD OIG is auditing Puerto Rico's Community Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program, Home Repair, Reconstruction, or Relocation (R3) program. HUD awarded Puerto Rico over $9 billion dollars in R3 program funding. The review objective is to determine whether the R3 program Read More
July 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#AT 20 0007
2017 Housing Repair and Replacement Program
HUD OIG is auditing a Florida grantee’s 2017 Housing Repair and Replacement Program. In 2018, the grantee was awarded more than $733 million to address unmet needs from Hurricane Irma. As of November 25, 2019, the grantee expended more than $14 million for the Housing Repair Replacement Read More
March 20, 2020
Work Start Notification
#AT 20 0006
HUD Oversight and Monitoring of Slow-Spending Disaster Recovery Grantees
HUD OIG is auditing HUD’s oversight and monitoring of Disaster Recovery Grantees deemed slow spenders. The United States Government Accountability Office (March 2019 report titled Disaster Recovery – Better Monitoring of Block Grant Funds is Needed) found that HUD did not have the guidance Read More
February 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#AT 20 0005
HECM Corrective Action Verification Review
HUD OIG is reviewing HUD's corrective actions in response to four specific recommendations made in audit reports 2012-PH-0004, 2013-PH-0002, 2014-PH-0001, and 2015-PH-0004. Our prior audits showed that HUD’s controls did not always ensure that HECM loan borrowers complied with program Read More
July 01, 2020
Work Start Notification
#PH 20 0008
HUD's Assurance of PHA's Processing of Reasonable Accommodation Requests
HUD OIG is conducting an audit to assess the Department's assurance of public housing agencies processing of reasonable accommodation requests. Reasonable accommodations are an essential tool to protect the housing rights of tenants with disabilities. The audit objective is to determine Read More
October 20, 2020
Work Start Notification
#BO 21 0001
Cleveland City Council Member Arrested, Charged with Federal Program Theft
Acting United States Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced today that sitting Cleveland City Council member Kenneth JOHNSON, age 74, of Cleveland, was arrested this morning by law enforcement agents with the Cleveland Division of the FBI after a federal grand jury handed down a fifteen-count Read More
February 23, 2021
News
Press Release
Contaminated Sites Pose Potential Health Risks to Residents at HUD-Funded Properties
The West Calumet Housing Complex (WCHC), located in East Chicago, IN, was a public housing development that opened in 1972 on top of a former lead smelting plant. HUD and other agencies missed multiple opportunities to identify site contamination at WCHC. As a result, WCHC residents Read More
February 14, 2021
Report
#2019-OE-0003
Real Estate Developer Among Four Individuals Charged in Mortgage Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO — A federal grand jury has indicted a real estate developer and three others for allegedly participating in a mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded financial institutions out of at least $3 million.
ANDRZEJ LAJEWSKI, who owned Des Plaines-based Highland Consulting Corp., and Chicago-based Read More
February 02, 2021
News
Press Release
Use of Landlord Incentives in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
We conducted this limited review to determine the use of landlord incentives to increase landlord participation and retention and expand housing options for program participants outside areas of low-income or minority concentration.
The majority (28 of 34) of responsive MTW PHAs used the program Read More
January 25, 2021
Memorandum
#2021-LA-0803
Case Manager and Property Agent Plead Guilty to Stealing Federal Funds Designated to Help Homeless Veterans
ATLANTA - Camelia Revels, a former case manager at HOPE Atlanta, and Katrise Jones, a property agent, have pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging them with conspiring to steal approximately $124,000 in federal funds intended to help homeless veterans.
“The defendants betrayed the trust Read More
January 21, 2021
News
Press Release
FHA Insured $940 Million in Loans for Properties in Flood Zones Without the Required Flood Insurance
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General, has completed its audit of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured loans originated in calendar year 2019. Our audit objective was to determine whether FHA insured loans that were not eligible for Read More
January 05, 2021
Report
#2021-KC-0002