Housing | Office of Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD's Office of Single Family Housing Did Not Consistently Monitor Its Field Service Management Contractors' Property Preservation and Protection Services

Update the FSM monitoring plan and FSM qualitative monitoring database to: (a) clearly define the monitoring questions, (b) include a section for Q7 New Not Ready to Show (NRTS) properties, (c) define which routine inspection reports will be reviewed to conduct the routine inspection monitoring reviews and (d) develop a monitoring question to evaluate photo date stamps.

HUD's Office of Single Family Housing Did Not Consistently Monitor Its Field Service Management Contractors' Property Preservation and Protection Services

Develop and implement uniform procedures for the FSM desk monitoring review, including a second level review for the FSM monitoring reviews and process for each inspection type.

HUD Should Better Track Elevated Blood Lead Levels in HUD-Assisted Multifmaily Housing

Establish processes to track reported EBLLs for the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs to easily identify the status of owners’ remediation efforts for units that were the source of the confirmed EBLL.

HUD Should Better Track Elevated Blood Lead Levels in HUD-Assisted Multifmaily Housing

Develop and implement a policy that clearly defines roles and responsibilities for Office of Multifamily Housing Programs’ staff for EBLL-related requirements, including the oversight of property owners’ compliance with these requirements.

HUD’s Office of Single Family Housing Did Not Consistently Monitor Its Field Service Management Contractors’ Property Preservation and Protection Services

HUD’s Office of Single Family Housing did not consistently monitor its Field Service Management (FSM) contractors’ property preservation and protection services. Specifically, HUD provided inconsistent monitoring for 34 of the 79 statistically sampled records we reviewed, and these involved discrepancies between HUD’s assessment, the support, and the performance work statement. HUD did not develop and apply a clear and uniform review framework to ensure that its process and procedures provided for effective FSM contract monitoring. As a result, HUD (1) cannot

Audit of FHA Claims Without Conveyance of Title Improper Payments

HUD OIG is auditing HUD’s FHA Claims Without Conveyance of Title (CWCOT) program, which is a disposition option for foreclosed FHA loans that allows third-party sales as an alternative to conveyance of the property to HUD. During fiscal year 2024, the CWCOT program had 11,285 claims totaling more than $419 million. Our audit objective is to assess whether HUD is appropriately demanding and collecting improper payments for CWCOT loans.

Audit of NSC Partial Claims Tracking and Collection

HUD OIG is auditing the National Servicing Center's partial claims tracking and collection. The FHA partial claim is a loss mitigation tool that helps borrowers keep their homes by advancing funds on behalf of the borrowers to reinstate delinquent FHA-insured mortgages. The objective of our audit is to determine whether the NSC serviced all due and payable partial claims in accordance with HUD rules and regulations.

A Review of Pandemic Relief Funding and How It Was Used In Six U.S. Communities: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

This report was issued from a developing series of six reports taking an in-depth look at how six communities used the pandemic funding they received to address a wide range of needs. This report focused on Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, with a detailed look at eight of the 45 pandemic programs that provided funding to the community. This report was led by the Pandemic Relief Accountability Committee (PRAC) in coordination with HUD OIG as a project participant as well as additional Federal OIGs.

HUD's Office of Housing Counseling Has Challenges Measuring the Impact of Prepurchase and Postpurchase Homeownership Counseling

Enhance monitoring of HUD-approved housing counseling agencies’ performance, to include progress toward the established performance metrics and benchmarks.

HUD's Office of Housing Counseling Has Challenges Measuring the Impact of Prepurchase and Postpurchase Homeownership Counseling

Implement routine client outcome data analysis to identify trends, quantify performance metrics and benchmarks, and measure the impact of prepurchase and postpurchase counseling on advancing homeownership. This should include routine analysis that HUD’s Office of Housing Counseling can implement based on data collected as well as continuing to pursue an updated housing counseling data system to help overcome client outcome data limitations.

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