Letter from Acting Inspector General Harrison responding to a request from Senator Murray and Senator Gillibrand to review recent actions taken by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development related to the Continuum of Care Builds funding competition. 

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Hudson, Florida, was sentenced in federal court to 78 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of wire fraud conspiracy, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.United States District Read More

HUD OIG is conducting an evaluation of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-Insured Single Family (SF) loans issued to deceased and incarcerated individuals. The objective of our evaluation is to determine whether the approval process for FHA-Insured SF loans resulted in loans to deceased or Read More

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On July 7, 2025, United States District Court Judge Aida Delgado-Colón sentenced Ángel Alexis Vázquez-Sánchez to 300 months (25 years) in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, for child exploitation. Vázquez-Sánchez, 27, from Jayuya, PR, was indicted on Read More

Develop and implement adequate policies, procedures, and controls to ensure that owner certifications and surveys and other relevant documents related to properties that fail inspections or are noted as having EHS deficiencies are maintained and retrievable from an easily accessible location.

Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that documentation is maintained to support that the reports were submitted to Congress.

We recommend that the Director, Office of Public Housing, New York, instruct the Authority to reimburse from non-Federal funds the $219,715 expended for ineligible costs as follows; $215,402 to HUD, and $4,313 to the 2007 ROSS Family grant.

Review the two loans in our sample that did not receive appropriate servicing and take administrative actions if appropriate.

We audited New York State’s Hurricane Sandy disaster procurement processes.  Our audit objective was to determine whether the State conducted its Hurricane Sandy-funded disaster recovery procurements using full, fair, and open competition methods.  By continuing to use a November 2012 Read More

GRAND RAPIDS – U.S. Attorney Timothy VerHey announced that Teri Lyn Looney, age 53, of Dimondale, Michigan was indicted by a grand jury on a criminal charge alleging that she embezzled approximately $95,000 from SIREN Eaton Shelter, a program receiving federal funds.SIREN Eaton Shelter is a Read More

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Hudson, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal fraud laws, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.Paul Andrew Gulbronson, 59, pleaded guilty to Count One of the Indictment before United States District Judge Read More

ST. LOUIS – A man accused of conspiring to steal or try to steal 16 homes and a duplex with bogus deeds appeared in U.S. District Court in St. Louis Thursday and pleaded not guilty to two separate indictments.James L. Townes Jr., 50, of Berkeley, was originally charged by complaint on June 10, 2025 Read More

HUD OIG is initiating an evaluation of the monitoring of elevated blood lead levels (EBLL) by property owners in multifamily properties receiving Section 8 project-based rental assistance (PBRA).  Our review will cover the period of calendar year 2020 to 2025.  Our objectives are to (1) Read More

HUD OIG is reviewing a Section 8 project-based rental assisted multifamily property in New York. Under a rental assistance contract, the property owner agrees to manage assisted units subject to Federal requirements. HUD agrees to pay subsidies to make up the difference between the low, income- Read More

HUD OIG is reviewing HUD's information Technology (IT) access control policies and procedures. The objective of our evaluation is to determine whether access to selected systems is properly authorized, maintained, and terminated in accordance with HUD policies, federal guidelines, and least Read More

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Public and Indian Housing’s (PIH) Housing Choice Voucher Program to assess public housing agencies’ (PHA) controls to prevent and combat source of income discrimination.  In limited circumstances, Federal law and Read More

Brian D. Harrison was appointed by the President as the Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on August 12, 2025. In this role, Mr. Harrison provides executive leadership to more than 445 special agents, investigative support professionals, auditors, Read More

WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Attorney Julianne E. Murray announced that on August 8, 2025,  Karen D. Wilder, age 39, and her husband, Renwick L. Davis, age 49, of Dover, Delaware, pleaded guilty to theft of public funds for embezzling approximately $600,000 as employees of the Dover Interfaith Read More

SOUTH BEND – Tonya R. Winston, 59 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was found guilty after a three-day jury trial presided over United States District Court Judge Cristal C. Brisco, announced Acting United States Attorney M. Scott Proctor.The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Winston on Read More

Update its QC plan and related processes and procedures to align with requirements for loan selection, including documenting how loan selections were determined.