HUD OIG is auditing HUD's efforts to increase the supply of affordable housing. To increase the affordable housing supply, HUD's Office of Single Family expanded the exclusive listing period to 30 days to increase the time owner-occupants, HUD-approved nonprofits, and governmental entities can view Read More

Real Estate Company Owner Conspired to Purchase Brooklyn Real Estate at Fraudulently Depressed Short Sale Prices, Costing Mortgage Loan Holders Millions of DollarsA federal jury in  Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict  yesterday against Avraham Tarshish for conspiracy to commit Read More

DETROIT – United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Dawn N. Ison and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis hosted two summits yesterday focused on promoting the health, safety, and civil rights of tenants living in HUD-assisted housing Read More

To promote equal opportunity and identify and eliminate discriminatory practices, Federal regulation mandates that agencies review and respond to all employment-related discrimination complaints.  At the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Office of Departmental Equal Read More

LOS ANGELES – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced the unsealing of a grand jury indictment against the owners of three mortgage brokerage firms and 11 affiliates in a mortgage fraud scheme. Fraudulent loan applications and financial documentation were allegedly used to obtain Read More

November 19, 2024, letter from Inspector General Oliver Davis responding to a request from Senator Grassley that asked for information about how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) uses Federal funding to settle Equal Employment Read More

November 19, 2024 letter from Inspector General Oliver Davis responding to a request from Senator Tillis, Senator Budd, Representative Foxx, Representative Hudson, Representative Rouzer, Representative Murphy, Representative Bishop, and Representative Edwards for oversight of the North Carolina Read More

The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Adnan Shalash, the owner and operator of rental properties in Lexington, Kentucky, for engaging in sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The lawsuit also names as defendants 12 owners of Read More

HUD OIG is conducting the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 evaluation of the HUD's information security (InfoSec) program and practices, as required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA). The objectives are to (1) perform an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of HUD’s Read More

We contracted with the independent public accounting firm of Sikich CPA LLC to audit the financial statements of HUD as of and for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2024 and 2023, and to provide reports on HUD’s (1) internal control over financial reporting and (2) compliance with laws, Read More

We contracted with the independent public accounting firm Sikich CPA LLC to audit the financial statements of Ginnie Mae as of and for the years ending September 30, 2024 and 2023, and to provide reports on Ginnie Mae’s (1) internal control over financial reporting and (2) compliance with laws, Read More

We contracted with the independent public accounting firm of Sikich CPA LLC to audit the financial statements of FHA as of and for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2024 and 2023, and to provide reports on FHA’s (1) internal control over financial reporting and (2) compliance with laws, Read More

HUD OIG is auditing HUD's oversight of Section 232 nursing home portfolios. HUD's Office of Residential Care Facilities is responsible for administering the Section 232 mortgage insurance program which insures more than 3,600 loans, with an unpaid principal balance of more than $32 billion. Our Read More

HUD OIG is conducting an audit of HUD’s HECM Life Expectancy Set Asides within the Office of Housing. In 2015, HUD set a requirement for some HECM borrowers to maintain a Life Expectancy Set Aside to pay for future property taxes, insurance premiums, and flood insurance on behalf of the borrower. Read More

Housing should include zero trust requirements as part of the Housing Strategic Roadmap for Housing Modernization.

Housing should refine access controls within the FHA Catalyst modules that are dynamic, are tailored to user actions, and require continuous reauthentication to ensure that users have access only to information needed.

Housing should coordinate with HUD’s SOC to a. Ensure that FHA Catalyst user behavior monitoring logs are regularly captured and adequately reviewed for discrepancies in user activities. b. Establish program office responsibility for the log review process.  

HUD OCIO should a) resolve the conflicts between its Inventory of Automated Systems (IAS) policy and web applications policy to clarify if web applications will be inventories in IAS, the web application Sharepoint site, or both; and b) implement the chosen resolution to this conflict to develop a Read More

HUD OCIO should implement an automated governance, risk, and compliance tool to manage risk from all sources across the three tiers of the organization in a timely manner. This recommendation updates FY 2021 FISMA recommendation number 5 (IG FISMA metrics 5, 9, and 10).

HUD OCIO should employ automation to maintain a timely and accurate view of security configuration information for all systems connected to its network (IG FISMA metric 20).