After More Than 6 Years, the City of New Orleans’ National Disaster Resilience Project Activities Made Little Impact on Resilience
WASHINGTON DC— Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit report examining the City of New Orleans’ (the City) use of HUD’s National Disaster Resilience grant funding. HUD’s program is designed to help state and local Read More
March 13, 2024
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After More Than 6 Years, The City of New Orleans’ National Disaster Resilience Project Activities Had Made Little Impact on Resilience
In January 2017, HUD awarded the City $141.2 million in Community Development Block Grant National Disaster Resilience grant funding for disaster resilience. HUD designed the grant to give states flexibility in planning program activities and help state and local communities recover from past Read More
March 11, 2024
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HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Multifamily Housing Properties With Failing REAC Scores or Life-Threatening Deficiencies
Develop and implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that (1) staff issues notices of violation and default within 15 calendar days of the inspection report release date and (2) the Office of Multifamily Asset Management and Portfolio Oversight is made aware when notices are not issued Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Multifamily Housing Properties With Failing REAC Scores or Life-Threatening Deficiencies
Include language in future notices of violation and default clearly stating that owners are required to inspect all units (including vacant units), common areas, grounds, building systems, and sites as part of the owner survey and require owners to include sufficient detail in the surveys to show Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Multifamily Housing Properties With Failing REAC Scores or Life-Threatening Deficiencies
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.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Multifamily Housing Properties With Failing REAC Scores or Life-Threatening Deficiencies
Develop and implement adequate controls to ensure that HUD staff with the appropriate level of authority approves extensions to the notices of violation and default cure periods in writing and that documentation is maintained to support such approvals.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Multifamily Housing Properties With Failing REAC Scores or Life-Threatening Deficiencies
Modify the queries used to generate the schedules of properties that accompany the reports to Congress to consider a larger range of dates to ensure that properties that failed consecutive inspections are appropriately identified on all applicable schedules.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Multifamily Housing Properties With Failing REAC Scores or Life-Threatening Deficiencies
Assess and streamline the processes for preparing, reviewing, and approving the reports as appropriate to ensure that the reports are submitted to Congress on or before the required due date.
Open Recommendation
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Multifamily Housing Properties With Failing REAC Scores or Life-Threatening Deficiencies
Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that documentation is maintained to support that the reports were submitted to Congress.
Open Recommendation
The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Louisville, KY, Has Opportunities To Improve Its Fair Housing Complaint Intake Process
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement require the Commission to update its intake policy and procedure to clarify which inquiries are to be recorded in HEMS.
Open Recommendation
The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Louisville, KY, Has Opportunities To Improve Its Fair Housing Complaint Intake Process
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement require the Commission to develop an internal agency intake training guide, distribute it to all agency housing staff members, and ensure that all intake staff members participate in HUD-approved training related to intake.
Open Recommendation
The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Louisville, KY, Has Opportunities To Improve Its Fair Housing Complaint Intake Process
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement require the Commission to implement a record retention policy to ensure that decisions on inquiries are sufficiently supported.
Open Recommendation
The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Louisville, KY, Has Opportunities To Improve Its Fair Housing Complaint Intake Process
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement require the Commission to implement a plan to ensure that it has sufficient staff to meet its obligations under FHAP cooperative agreement.
Open Recommendation
The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Louisville, KY, Has Opportunities To Improve Its Fair Housing Complaint Intake Process
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement require the Commission to implement a system to better track the intake and processing of potential fair housing inquiries.
Open Recommendation
Management Alert - Action Is Needed From HUD Leadership To Resolve Systemic Challenges With Improper Payments
We recommend that the Deputy Secretary Develop and execute a detailed plan and timeline for both testing and reporting estimates of improper payments in the PIH-TBRA and PBRA programs in compliance with Federal law and OMB guidance.
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In response to the Management Alert, the Deputy Read More
Open Recommendation
Recruitment of Individuals Who Identify as Hispanic or Latino for Employment With HUD
Determine how to measure the impact of recruitment efforts related to individuals who identiy as Hispanic or Latino.
Open Recommendation
Recruitment of Individuals Who Identify as Hispanic or Latino for Employment With HUD
Implement a process to measure the impact of recruitment efforts related to individuals who identify as Hispanic or Latino.
Open Recommendation
Recruitment of Individuals Who Identify as Hispanic or Latino for Employment With HUD
Implement a process to collect and maintain information about recruitment efforts related to indiviuals who identify as Hispanic or Latino from all HUD program offices and their respective field offices.
Open Recommendation
Beckley Man Sentenced for Federal Fraud Crime
BECKLEY, W.Va. – Timothy Gross, 39, of Beckley, was sentenced today to five years of probation and ordered to pay $65,275.44 in restitution for wire fraud. Gross admitted to making a fraudulent payment with an employer-issued credit card as part of a scheme to divert $65,275.44 in credit card Read More
February 02, 2024
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Defendant Sentenced for Fraud at South Bend Housing Authority
SOUTH BEND –Douglas Donley, 42 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Jon E. DeGuilio, after being found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud and one count of bank fraud on November 1, 2023, following an eight- Read More
February 29, 2024
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