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Public and Indian Housing

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-CH-0003-001-I

    Continue its efforts to resolve technical issues that prevented the addition of new cases into the response tracker.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-CH-0003-001-J

    Establish policies, procedures, and controls for validating and correcting construction dates of the public housing developments in IMS-PIC. If the information is determined to be inaccurate, HUD should work with public housing agencies to update the data to ensure accuracy.

Public and Indian Housing

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-001-A

    Develop and implement a HUD-approved cost allocation plan(s) that appropriately represents the benefit received by the Authority from the City’s HHS department and allocates overhead and operating costs to all programs managed by the Authority.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-001-B
    $1,965,990
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Support the eligibility of the $1,965,990 in overhead allocations through the application of a HUD-approved allocation plan (including offsetting the amount by applicable reimbursements) or repay the Housing Choice Voucher Program from non-Federal funds.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-001-C
    $50,947
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Determine the appropriate amount of general operating costs totaling $2,544,266 that applied to the Housing Choice Voucher Program in accordance with a HUD-approved cost allocation plan (including offsetting the amount by applicable reimbursements) and repay overcharges (estimated at $50,947) to the Program from the other applicable programs as appropriate or from non-Federal funds.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-001-D
    $25,827
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Support the eligibility of the $25,827 in personnel expenses from SPC (including offsetting the amount by applicable reimbursements) or repay its Housing Choice Voucher Program from the other applicable programs as appropriate or from non-Federal funds.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-001-E
    $64,150
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Support the eligibility of the $64,150 for accounting services charged to the Housing Choice Voucher Program that applied to other Authority programs (including offsetting the amount by applicable reimbursements) or repay the Program from the other applicable programs as appropriate or from non-Federal funds.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-002-A
    $340,701
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Support the reasonableness of the $340,701 Casterline contracts or repay the Housing Choice Voucher Program any amount that cannot be supported using non-Federal funds.

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-002-B
    $33,415
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Support the reasonableness of the $33,415 Genesis contract or repay any amount that cannot be supported from non-Federal funds.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-002-C

    Establish and implement additional procedures and controls to ensure that City personnel responsible for administering procurement on the Authority’s behalf follow procurement and contracting requirements and maintain applicable supporting documentation in accordance with HUD requirements.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-003-A
    $5,648
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Repay the Housing Choice Voucher Program $5,648 from non-Federal funds for the unallowable expenses.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-LA-1002-003-B

    Develop and implement procedures and controls to ensure that ineligible food costs are not charged to the Program.

Government National Mortgage Association

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-FO-0002-001-A

    Test whether a cumulative housing price appreciation (HPA) variable should be added to the probability of prepayment, probability of default, foreclosure timeline, buyout time models, and cure rate assumptions. Ginnie Mae should provide an analysis if it believes that adding an HPA variable would not be appropriate to support its position.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-FO-0002-001-B

    Develop and implement policies and procedures to require a sufficiently granular decomposition analysis that can adequately explain the impact of all the model changes made.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-FO-0002-001-C

    Develop and implement policies and procedures or enhance or clarify, as appropriate, existing policies and procedures that will require additional analyses whenever thresholds are breached or other analyses indicate potential modeling issues.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-FO-0002-001-D

    Document the economic rationale behind unintuitive model coefficients to support that the unintuitive relationships are appropriate.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-FO-0002-001-E

    Document all model assumptions that are undocumented, providing the basis for any assumptions or decisions made when developing each model assumption.

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-FO-0002-001-F

    Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure compliance with model risk management guidance regarding adequate and well-documented model assumptions.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-FO-0002-001-G

    Develop and implement controls that ensure the updating of model documentation when model changes are made.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-FO-0002-001-H

    Improve model documentation by addressing the model documentation deficiencies cited in this report and narrowing or consolidating them into fewer pieces of documentation, as appropriate.