Top Management Challenges

The Inspector General Act of 1978 requires the Inspector General to prepare semiannual reports summarizing the activities of the Office of Inspector General for the preceding six-month period. The semiannual reports are intended to keep the Secretary and Congress fully informed of significant…

HUD’s Office of Single Family Housing did not consistently monitor its Field Service Management (FSM) contractors’ property preservation and protection services.  Specifically, HUD provided inconsistent monitoring for 34 of the 79 statistically sampled records we reviewed, and these involved…

HUD did not comply with PIIA because it did not report compliant improper and unknown payment estimates for the Office of Public and Indian Housing’s Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (PIH-TBRA) program and the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs’ Project-Based Rental Assistance (MF-PBRA) program. …

HUD OIG is doing a review of HUD's workforce reductions.  The review will highlight the HUD offices that are majorly impacted by the workforce reductions and will also summarize the demographics of employees who were terminated or resigned between January 20, 2025 and May 31, 2025.

We are initiating an audit of HUD’s (HUD proper, Ginnie Mae, FHA) inactive obligations. The objective of our audit is to identify and evaluate HUD’s inactive obligations to determine if they are still needed for the purposes intended, and if not, assess gaps in controls that prevented earlier…

Each year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD or Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) provides the Department with a memorandum of priority open recommendations the OIG issued in its reports.

April 11, 2025, Letter from Acting Inspector General Begg responding to a request from sixteen Ranking Members of Senate committees to review employment actions at HUD.

This inaugural disaster recovery biannual report and subsequent reports will provide curated information regarding the U.S.

April 10, 2025, Letter from Acting Inspector General Begg responding to a request from Ranking Member Waters to conduct oversight of HUD’s compliance with statutory requirements to maintain field office capacity.  

HUD OIG is auditing the National Servicing Center's partial claims tracking and collection. The FHA partial claim is a loss mitigation tool that helps borrowers keep their homes by advancing funds on behalf of the borrowers to reinstate delinquent FHA-insured mortgages. The objective of our audit…