We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing and Voucher Programs ensure that personnel receive training on how to conduct the civil rights front-end reviews, including a review of PHAs reasonable accommodation policies and procedures.
2022-BO-0001 | February 07, 2022
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Policies and Procedures for Ensuring That Public Housing Agencies Properly Processed Requests for Reasonable Accommodation
Public and Indian Housing
- Status2022-BO-0001-001-FOpenClosedClosed on May 26, 2022
2022-NY-1001 | January 11, 2022
The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority, Buffalo, NY, Needs To Improve Its Management of the Commodore Perry Homes Development To Address Longstanding Concerns
Public and Indian Housing
- Status2022-NY-1001-001-AOpenClosedClosed on September 26, 2022
Work with the Authority to determine whether the buildings represent an imminent threat to public safety from physical deterioration and whether activities to control the situation would be exempt under the Part 58 environmental review process or excluded under the Part 50 environmental review process. If it qualifies, require the Authority to immediately take actions necessary to control the imminent threat to public safety before the full environmental review is done.
- Status2022-NY-1001-001-BOpenClosedClosed on January 02, 2024
Determine whether it would be beneficial for HUD to conduct a Part 50 environmental review of the development or if the Authority should conduct a Part 58 environmental review, and implement the decision to ensure that the environmental review is conducted as soon as possible as required under the action plan.
- Status2022-NY-1001-001-COpenClosedClosed on July 05, 2022
Continue to provide training and technical assistance to ensure that the Authority understands relevant requirements for the various asset repositioning options, including milestone and disposition requirements.
- Status2022-NY-1001-001-DOpenClosedClosed on September 27, 2022
Provide certifications and supporting documentation to show that it has identified and addressed urgent health and safety issues at the development, such as flooded stairwells, accessible crawlspaces, and unsecured windows and doors.
- Status2022-NY-1001-001-EOpenClosedClosed on March 18, 2025
Develop and implement a plan to routinely identify and address recurring urgent health and safety issues such as flooded stairwells, accessible crawlspaces, and unsecured windows and doors while the property remains vacant and throughout future asset repositioning efforts.
- Status2022-NY-1001-001-FOpenClosed
Develop and implement a plan to use available asset repositioning options for the remaining 284 public housing units at the Commodore Perry Homes development, including 274 dwelling units and 10 nondwelling units.
- Status2022-NY-1001-001-GOpenClosed
Develop and implement a plan for the original property related to the 46 units converted under the RAD transfer of assistance option to ensure that the property and proceeds from its disposition are used in accordance with requirements.
- Status2022-NY-1001-001-HOpenClosedClosed on March 18, 2025
If the Authority does not follow through on its asset repositioning plans, misses deadlines, or it otherwise becomes clear that the plan is no longer feasible, work with the HUD’s Special Applications Center, Office of Recapitalization, and other offices as appropriate, to consider and use available remedies such as revoking approval and enforcing required conversion.
2022-FO-0004 | December 09, 2021
Audit of HUD’s Fiscal Years 2021 and 2020 Consolidated Financial Statements
Chief Financial Officer
- Status2022-FO-0004-001-AOpenClosedClosed on August 24, 2022
As part of the validation process for CPD’s accrued liabilities, improve its validation process to ensure that it is based on verifiable grantees responses and supporting documentation.
- Status2022-FO-0004-001-BOpenClosedClosed on September 22, 2022
We are recommending OCFO reopen the following recommendation reported in audit report 2021-FO-0003-0001-D: 1B. As part of the validation process for CPD’s accrued grant liabilities, review CPD’s accrued grant liabilities estimation methodology to ensure that it is based on verifiable grantee supporting documentation and all assumptions and variables used for the grant accrual estimate were properly established, supported, and documented.
- Status2022-FO-0004-004-AOpenClosedClosed on March 31, 2022
Implement a policy to ensure the federal regulation responsibilities for outgoing HUD employees are reassigned to appropriate HUD personnel to enable HUD to continue to address those federal regulation requirements.
- Status2022-FO-0004-004-BOpenClosedClosed on August 31, 2023
Establish controls to determine if single audits for HUD grantees are being completed and reported in a timely manner in accordance with 2 CFR §200.512.
- Status2022-FO-0004-004-COpenClosedClosed on March 31, 2022
Provide a means for which HUD grantees and their auditors can request technical advice and counsel.
- Status2022-FO-0004-004-DOpenClosedClosed on November 21, 2024
Establish controls to determine if follow-up is being conducted to determine if the grant recipients have taken appropriate and timely corrective action. That follow-up must include the following: a. Issuing a management decision letter as prescribed in 2 CFR §200.521; b. Monitoring recipients to ensure they are taking appropriate and timely corrective action; c.Using cooperative audit resolution mechanisms (see 2 CFR §200.25) to improve federal program outcomes through better audit resolution, follow-up, and corrective action; and d. Developing a baseline, metrics, and targets to track, over time, the effectiveness of HUD’s process to follow-up on audit findings and on the effectiveness of single audits in improving recipient accountability and their use by HUD in making award decisions.
- Status2022-FO-0004-004-EOpenClosedClosed on March 31, 2022
Establish controls to ensure that HUD provides Office of Management Budget (OMB) annual updates to the compliance supplement6 and works with OMB to ensure that the supplement focuses the auditor to test compliance requirements most likely to cause improper payments, fraud, waste, abuse or generate audit findings for which HUD will take sanctions.
- Status2022-FO-0004-004-FOpenClosedClosed on November 21, 2024
Establish a control to hold HUD’s Single Audit Accountable Official responsible for improving the effectiveness of the single audit process based on single audit metrics that HUD will establish in response to recommendation 4D above.
2022-FO-0801 | October 12, 2021
Fraud Risk Inventory for the CDBG and ESG CARES Act Funds
Chief Financial Officer
- Status2022-FO-0801-001-AOpenClosedClosed on June 15, 2022
Coordinate with CPD program staff to clarify the (1) roles and responsibilities of the CRO, HCCRT, and CPD’s risk management staff with regard to identifying, assessing, and mitigating fraud risks and (2) purpose and role of HUD’s ERM processes and program office risk management processes with regard to identifying, assessing, and mitigating fraud risks.
2021-FW-1003 | September 29, 2021
The Bay City Housing Authority, Bay City, TX, Did Not Follow Requirements for Its Legal Services Contract, Administrative Costs, and Board Meetings
Public and Indian Housing
- Status2021-FW-1003-001-AOpenClosed$5,000Questioned 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.
Closed on March 23, 2023We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Houston Office of Public Housing require the Authority to reimburse its Public Housing Operating Fund $5,000 from non-Federal funds for the unrecovered remaining balance of the $20,000 that was paid to the attorney.
- Status2021-FW-1003-001-BOpenClosed$24,250Funds Put to Better Use
Recommendations that funds be put to better use estimate funds that could be used more efficiently. For example, recommendations that funds be put to better use could result in reductions in spending, deobligation of funds, or avoidance of unnecessary spending.
Closed on January 26, 2022We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Houston Office of Public Housing require the Authority to ensure that no Federal funds are used to pay the remaining legal services invoices totaling $24,250, which will result in these funds being put to better use.