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.

Conduct lead-based paint inspections at public housing abated through removal methods where an abatement report is unavailable to ensure that units are “lead-free.”

Leverage HUD OIG’s fraud risk inventory and continue using the Office of the Chief Risk Officer’s risk catalog to enhance CPD’s fraud risk management process.

Use CPD’s fraud risk inventory to identify data needs, potential system enhancements, and implement data analysis techniques to improve CPD’s ability to monitor and respond to fraud risks in the Disaster Recovery program.

Include grantees in the fraud risk identification process and communicate the risks and schemes identified for the disaster recovery program to relevant stakeholders, including, but not limited to, all HUD staff in the CPD Office of  Disaster Recovery, grantees and sub-recipients.

Implement quality control checks that reconcile financial statement disclosure amounts to the general ledger and other supporting documentation as part of the financial statements review and approval process. 

Develop a standard operating procedure that details the rationale, calculation, and underlying support needed for the amounts and narrative descriptions in the financial statement note disclosures, including borrowing authority.

Implement a procedure to test journal entry posting models and their effect on the financial statements and related note disclosures when there are program changes requiring new journal entries.

Ensure the report provided by the NSC to reclassify partial claims from loans receivable to account receivable is appropriate for financial reporting and document the decision. 

Record journal entries to reclassify the HECM cases with missing original first notes for more than 90 days from loans receivable to accounts receivable.