Top Management Challenges

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiated an evaluation in response to a directive from Senate Committee Report 119-47.   We evaluated HUD’s Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) inspection results under the National Standards for the…

This report provides stakeholders with information on the OIG’s single audit oversight activities between October and December 2025.  During this period, we focused our desk reviews on the 51 single audits submitted between April and June 2025 by non-Federal entities for which HUD was the…

As part of our mission to safeguard HUD’s programs from fraud, waste, and abuse, and to identify opportunities for HUD programs to progress and succeed, we selected New Jersey for a review of potential improper payments.   Our audit objective was to determine whether New Jersey made improper…

We audited the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) National Servicing Center’s (NSC) tracking and collection of FHA partial claims.  We initiated the audit to assess HUD’s implementation of the corrective actions from HUD OIG audit report 2016-KC-0001, HUD Did Not Collect an…

We audited Solis Gardens Apartments’ management of its HUD-insured Section 207/223(f) multifamily property as part of our annual work plan.  The owner of Solis Garden Apartments manages 62 units in accordance with HUD requirements and its regulatory agreement which includes restrictions on the use…

We identified a significant increase in the amount of funds drawn by HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) and HOME American Rescue Plan (ARP) grantees near the time of the January 2025, hold in Federal funds, which increased the risk that the funds may have been drawn prematurely, without…

We assessed public housing agencies’ (PHA) management of the occupancy of public housing units.  Our audit objective was to (1) assess the occupancy of public housing units, and (2) determine whether HUD had adequate oversight of PHAs’ occupancy, particularly PHAs’ management of vacant units.

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Claims Without Conveyance of Title (CWCOT) program.  We selected this review to assist HUD in recovering improper payments and to reduce the risk of losses to the FHA insurance fund.

Our office is currently conducting three audits of crime prevention and eligibility determinations at Public Housing Authorities (PHA) in Washington, DC; Chicago; and Los Angeles.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an evaluation of the operational effectiveness of information technology (IT) security controls for the HUDUSER system, which is operated by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R).