HUD OIG is auditing HUD's compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) for fiscal year 2025. PIIA helps agencies identify improper payments, which could impact HUD’s beneficiaries and ultimately undermines the integrity of HUD’s programs, which hinders HUD in fully achieving Read More

This disaster recovery biannual report and subsequent annual reports will provide curated information regarding the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and its grantees’ use of the more than $109 billion in disaster recovery funds approved by Congress since the 2001 World Trade Read More

We audited New York City (NYC) Department of Social Services (DSS) with the objective of evaluating DSS’ fraud risk management practices for its Emergency Solutions Grants Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (ESG CARES Act) funded activities and assessed the maturity of its efforts Read More

HUD OIG is conducting an evaluation of HUD’s processes related to the Buy America Preference of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA). Our evaluation will focus on Buy America Preference processes and applicable grants awarded on or after November 15, 2021. Our evaluation objective is to assess Read More

CLEVELAND – A Cleveland woman who conspired with an elected public official to defraud local nonprofits has been sentenced.Sinera Unique Jones, aka Sinera McCoy, 46, has been sentenced to three years of probation with two months of home detention by U.S. District Judge Christopher A. Boyko, after Read More

HUD OIG is reviewing a Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured multifamily property in Maryland.  The property owner manages units in accordance with its regulatory agreement which includes restrictions on the use of project funds and assets.  Our objective is to determine whether Read More

HUD OIG is auditing HUD's Inventory Management System/PIH Information Center (IMS/PIC) fatal errors related to its Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. Fatal errors, which result from inaccurate or incomplete data, are serious in nature and prevent PHAs from submitting data from HUD form 50058 Read More

HUD OIG is reviewing a Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured multifamily property in California. The property owner manages units in accordance with its regulatory agreement which includes restrictions on the use of project funds and assets. Our objective is to determine whether the property Read More

Update its QC plan and related processes and procedures to align with requirements for (1) loan file reviews, including requirements to obtain new credit reports, reverify borrower information, and obtain appraisal field reviews; (2) documenting review results, including maintaining data on Read More

Provide indemnification agreements or documentation to support the two loans in which it missed material deficiencies and the three loans in which it identified material findings that it did not acceptably mitigate or self-report to HUD. Implementation of this recommendation will protect the FHA Read More

Evaluate its QC files for the 29 post-closing QC reviews in which it identified material findings to confirm whether it self-reported to HUD all findings of fraud or material misrepresentation, along with any other material findings that its records did not show have been acceptably mitigated. Read More

Obtain credit reports and reverify borrower information for up to 279 EPD reviews performed and evaluate the risk of both new findings identified and existing findings contained in its QC files to confirm whether it self-reported to HUD all findings of fraud or material misrepresentation, along Read More

Review the six EPD loans not previously selected for review and submit the results to HUD, including all findings of fraud or material misrepresentation, along with any other material findings that it is unable to mitigate. If required, Flat Branch should execute indemnification agreements or Read More

Provide annual training to its staff and management on HUD requirements for lender QC programs and provide proof of training to HUD.

Update its QC plan and related processes and procedures to align with requirements for loan selection, including maintaining data and documenting how sample sizes and loan selections were determined.

Work with 134 grantees (29 NSP1 and 105 NSP3) that reported missing expenditure deadlines in DRGR to ensure that expenditure information submitted is accurate and up to date.

Implement procedures for monitoring property owners’ reserve for replacement accounts for compliance with HUD’s requirements, using reserve for replacement account data collected on projects from PHAs.

Collect data on projects’ reserve for replacement accounts to support the Office of Field Operations’ monitoring activities.

Implement a process, in conjunction with the Office of Recapitalization, to ensure that the reserve for replacement requirements in HUD’s business documents, such as the RAD conversion commitment, HAP contract, and operating agreement, are consistent for converted projects.

Obtain documentation from the PHAs to support that more than $1 million in withdrawals from the eight reserve accounts complied with HUD’s requirements or require the project owners to reimburse the reserve accounts for the unsupported withdrawals.