The following is the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Annual Work Plan (AWP) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. The OIG conducts audits and evaluations to prevent and detect fraud and abuse and promote the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of HUD’s programs and operations. 

The AWP highlights audits and evaluations the OIG will initiate in FY 2026, as well as ongoing projects that continue from prior years. All of the projects span HUD programs and operations and take into account HUD’s Top Management and Performance Challenges we identified through our past oversight work, HUD’s priorities as described in its Annual Performance Plan for FY 2026, and recommendations for action we issued to HUD that remain open. The projects also encompass mandatory audits and evaluations required by laws or regulations. 

We organized the AWP by focus areas that correspond to the challenges described in our Top Management and Performance Challenges Report. These focus areas are:

• Improving Business Operations: Modernizing IT Systems and Streamlining Procurement 

• Protecting Taxpayer Funds from Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

• Modernizing the Management of Grant Funds 

• Ensuring the Availability of and Access to Affordable and Quality Housing 

We are committed to providing objective oversight to protect taxpayer funds from fraud and waste and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of HUD’s programs and operations. As with any plan, the AWP is subject to periodic review and revision to address emerging programmatic issues, priorities, and resource changes and to respond to HUD requests or legislative mandates. One area of developing oversight is the OIG’s work in support of safer homes and communities as mandated by the President’s Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda.