HUD OIG is auditing a California-based grantee's Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG-CV) program. The CARES Act provided nearly $4 billion in special ESG funds to grantees to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic and supports activities, such as, rapid re-housing, homelessness prevention programs, and emergency shelters for people experiencing homelessness.  Our objective is to assess the grantee's fraud risk framework, that encompasses control activities to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud.

HUD OIG is auditing HUD's Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG-CV) program, which is a grant program that funds rapid re-housing, homelessness prevention programs, and emergency shelters for people experiencing homelessness. The CARES Act provided nearly $4 billion special ESG funds to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

HUD OIG has initiated an attestation engagement of HUD’s Fiscal Year 2022 National Drug Control activities. Our objective is to obtain limited assurance about whether any material modifications should be made to HUD’s assertions on its drug control funding and accompanying fiscal year 2022 reports in order for them to be in accordance with ONDCP’s requirements. OIG is required to do this attestation at least every 3 years.

HUD OIG is reviewing HUD's Continuum of Care (CoC) spending.  Under the CoC Program, HUD provides funding to promote communitywide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness.  Between fiscal years 2017 and 2019, HUD made available between $2 billion to $2.3 billion annually for the CoC Program. The audit objective is to determine whether HUD is effectively tracking and monitoring slow spending CoC grants to ensure grantees are providing homelessness services in accordance with program objectives and to determine the impact of COVID-19 on COC grantee spending.

HUD OIG is auditing a Continuum of Care Program in California.  The City Controller issued a report on August 28, 2019, criticizing the grantee for falling short of its homeless outreach goals and considered the goals as ill-defined and not in alignment with County benchmarks.  Data from HUD indicates the grantee had nine grants expire in 2017 and 2018 with balances totaling nearly $4.5 million as of September 2019.