HUD Remains Challenged To Serve the Maximum Number of Eligible Families Due to Decreasing Utilization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Establish and implement a plan for the unused and unfunded vouchers to mitigate or prevent additional vouchers from becoming unused and unfunded […]
HUD Needs To Improve Its Oversight of PBRA and FHA-Insured PBV Properties Converted Under RAD
Complete the initial management and occupancy reviews (MORs) for the Rental Assistance Demonstration properties that have not had an initial MOR.
Opportunities Exist To Improve HUD's Hiring Process
Create and implement a knowledge management strategy, such as developing standard operating procedures, reference sheets, and program office fact sheets.
HUD's Processes for Managing IT Acquisitions
Evaluate IT acquisition process workflows and identify ways to simplify the processes, facilitate more effective stakeholder coordination across offices, and create efficiencies when possible.
Improvements Are Needed to HUD's Processes for Monitoring EBLLs and Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Public Housing
PIH in coordination with other HUD offices as necessary, research and address potential causes of the variance in the number of EBLL cases among States on the EBLL tracker and identify solutions that are within HUD's control.
Improvements Are Needed to HUD's Processes for Monitoring EBLLs and Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Public Housing
Update HUD regulations, policies, and procedures following the regulatory process required by the amended Lead Safe Housing Rule, in consideration of CDC's lowered BLRV of 3.5 ug/dL.
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Update its policies and procedures to define how Ginnie Mae intends to identify and evaluate prospective buyers to ensure its ability to absorb the extinguished portfolio before executing the purchase and sale agreement.
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Update its policy and procedures to define its authority for marketing troubled issuer portfolios and the conditions that must exist to extinguish issuers using rapid relocation.
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Update its policy and procedures to define what type of information Ginnie Mae may disclose and how it will handle protected information before extinguishment.
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Update its Policies and procedures to define how Ginnie Mae will determine the portfolio value and price before Sale.
Improvements are Needed in HUD's Fraud Risk Management Program
Perform a complete agency-wide fraud risk assessment (which incorporates the fraud risk assessments performed at the program level) and use the results to develop and implement an agency-wide plan to move HUD’s fraud risk management program out of the ad hoc phase.
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Hazard Remediation in Public Housing
Require the REAC in coordination with OFO to determine the number of developments and associated units that contain lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards.
Improvements Are Needed To Ensure That Public Housing Properties Are Inspected in a TimelyManner
Implement adequate policies, procedures, and controls to ensure that public housing properties will be inspected within required timeframes.
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Multifamily Housing Properties With Failing REAC Scores or Life-Threatening Deficiencies
Develop and implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that (1) staff issues notices of violation and default within 15 calendar days of the inspection report release date and (2) the Office of Multifamily Asset Management and Portfolio Oversight is made aware when notices are not issued within 15 calendar days after the inspection report release date and takes action as appropriate to ensure that future notices are issued in a timely…
HUD Can Improve Its Oversight of the Physical Condition of Public Housing Developments
Develop and implement a nationwide inspection review protocol, which includes but is not limited to (1) whether field office staff should mark verification of PHA corrections of life-threatening deficiencies in PASS or any future tracking systems, (2) acceptable documentation for offsite verifications, and (3) whether field office staff should discuss or verify corrections of non-life-threatening deficiencies.
HUD Can Improve Its Oversight of the Physical Condition of Public Housing Developments
Develop and implement training for field offices that addresses reviewing or following up with PHAs about the correction of life-threatening and non-life-threatening deficiencies and how (1) to review physical inspection reports to effectively ensure that PHAs correct physical deficiencies, (2) PHAs should address or correct each type of deficiency observed in the REAC physical inspection report, and (3) to use PASS or any future tracking…
Management Alert: HUD Should Take Additional Steps to Protect Contractor Employees Who Disclose Wrongdoing
HUD (a) identify all contracts related to its programs that pre-date July 1, 2013 and that have not yet been modified to include Section 4712 whistleblower protections; and (b) review all contracts entered into on or after July 1, 2013, to ensure they include a clause that requires contractors to comply with Section 4712.
Management Alert: HUD Should Take Additional Steps to Protect Contractor Employees Who Disclose Wrongdoing
Use its best efforts to include a clause requiring compliance with Section 4712 at the time of major modifications to contracts with program participants with whom HUD is unable to gain voluntary cooperation.
HUD Can Improve Its Oversight of the Physical Condition of Public Housing Developments
Develop and implement a nationwide protocol for field offices, describing how PHA self-inspections should be reviewed, based on REAC's determination of the number and frequency of PHA self-inspections.
Management Alert - Action Is Needed From HUD Leadership To Resolve Systemic Challenges With Improper Payments
Develop and execute a detailed plan and timeline for both testing and reporting estimates of improper payments in the PIH-TBRA and PBRA programs in compliance with Federal law and OMB guidance.