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

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-25-21, Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust (OMB M-25-21) directs each agency to submit to OMB and post on its public website a plan to comply with the requirements of M-25-21. Click the button below for Read More

Jacksonville, Florida – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces that Thomas B. Hoffman (45, Florahome) has pleaded guilty to theft of federal funds. Hoffman faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, as well as forfeiture in the amount of $155,706 and restitution to the victim Read More

September 22, 2025 letter from Acting Inspector General Harrison responding to a request from Senator Murray and Senator Gillibrand to review recent actions taken by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development related to the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.

HUD OIG is auditing a public housing agency located in Illinois. The housing authority owns and manages public housing units and administers a housing choice voucher program. Our objective is to (1) determine whether the Authority complied with HUD’s and its own requirements for verifying Read More

HUD OIG is auditing a public housing agency located in California. The housing authority owns and manages public housing units and administers a housing choice voucher program. Our objective is to (1) determine whether the Authority complied with HUD’s and its own requirements for verifying Read More

HUD OIG is auditing a public housing agency located in the District of Columbia. The housing authority owns and manages public housing units and administers a housing choice voucher program. Our objective is to (1) determine whether the Authority complied with HUD’s and its own requirements for Read More

Sean P. Madigan, 35, and Victoria Madigan, 35, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, were both sentenced to five years of supervised probation for crimes related to making false statements and wire fraud. Sean was sentenced on June 6 and the court ordered him to pay $161,175 in restitution to the State of Wyoming Read More

Letter from Acting Inspector General Harrison responding to a request from Senator Murray and Senator Gillibrand to review recent actions taken by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development related to the Continuum of Care Builds funding competition. 

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Hudson, Florida, was sentenced in federal court to 78 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of wire fraud conspiracy, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.United States District Read More

HUD OIG is conducting an evaluation of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-Insured Single Family (SF) loans issued to deceased and incarcerated individuals. The objective of our evaluation is to determine whether the approval process for FHA-Insured SF loans resulted in loans to deceased or Read More

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On July 7, 2025, United States District Court Judge Aida Delgado-Colón sentenced Ángel Alexis Vázquez-Sánchez to 300 months (25 years) in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, for child exploitation. Vázquez-Sánchez, 27, from Jayuya, PR, was indicted on Read More

Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that documentation is maintained to support that the reports were submitted to Congress.

Develop and implement adequate policies, procedures, and controls to ensure that owner certifications and surveys and other relevant documents related to properties that fail inspections or are noted as having EHS deficiencies are maintained and retrievable from an easily accessible location.

We recommend that the Director, Office of Public Housing, New York, instruct the Authority to reimburse from non-Federal funds the $219,715 expended for ineligible costs as follows; $215,402 to HUD, and $4,313 to the 2007 ROSS Family grant.

Review the two loans in our sample that did not receive appropriate servicing and take administrative actions if appropriate.

We audited New York State’s Hurricane Sandy disaster procurement processes.  Our audit objective was to determine whether the State conducted its Hurricane Sandy-funded disaster recovery procurements using full, fair, and open competition methods.  By continuing to use a November 2012 Read More