HUD Subsidized 10,119 Units for Tenants Who Were Undercharged Flat Rents
Follow up with the housing authorities in our sample, identified as noncompliant with flat rent requirements, to ensure that their rents are properly adjusted.
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Follow up with the housing authorities in our sample, identified as noncompliant with flat rent requirements, to ensure that their rents are properly adjusted.
Finalize and implement monitoring procedures to ensure that $6,324,625 in flat rents are appropriately charged to tenants over the next year.
Implement controls to ensure that all future check request forms are complete for proper tracking in its accounting records and authorized approver verifies source documentation is attached prior to check issuance for future program expenses as required by its own policies and procedures.
Support the eligibility of the reported $548 in unsupported program costs or repay its program using non-Federal funds.
Require the Authority to establish and implement controls and formal written policies and procedures to ensure that accurate tribal enrollment numbers are reported to the Formula Service Center and HUD for future grant years.
Require the Authority to provide source documentation to determine the accuracy of the tribal enrollment numbers reported in 2015 and 2016. Based on those supported numbers, HUD should recapture or offset the unsupported amounts from the awarded $1,746,658 in program funds that resulted from under or overstated tribal enrollment numbers.
Recapture the $248,222 in excess program funds from the Authority and allocate in the pool for other tribes to use in meeting program objectives.
Determine whether the households residing in the Authority’s project-based voucher units, that bypassed others on the wait lists, received housing in accordance with the program’s requirements and if not, consider a referral to HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
Develop and implement procedures for following project-based voucher requirements for tenant recertifications as project-based voucher tenants at Terrace Lane and Southside Village, and ensure they comply with the Housing Choice Voucher regulations.
Provide adequate supporting documentation for $669,938 in monthly RAD rehabilitation assistance it received for vacant units during the period of construction or repay the project-based voucher program from non-Federal funds.