HUD OIG is reviewing HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development’s (CPD) Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG-CV) program.  The CARES Act provided $4 billion in ESG-CV funds to be used to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, among individuals and families who are homeless or receiving homeless assistance.  Our objective is to determine what challenges grantees of ESG-CV funds have faced in implementing the program and utilizing grant funds.

HUD OIG is reviewing HUD's Continuum of Care (CoC) spending.  Under the CoC Program, HUD provides funding to promote communitywide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness.  Between fiscal years 2017 and 2019, HUD made available between $2 billion to $2.3 billion annually for the CoC Program. The audit objective is to determine whether HUD is effectively tracking and monitoring slow spending CoC grants to ensure grantees are providing homelessness services in accordance with program objectives and to determine the impact of COVID-19 on COC grantee spending.

HUD OIG is conducting a limited review of the emergency Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) and Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) funds authorized under the CARES Act.  HUD awarded $200 million in IHBG CARES Act funding and $100 million in ICDBG CARES Act funding.  The audit objective is to determine the status of emergency IHBG and ICDBG CARES Act funds and any areas of potential concern.

HUD OIG is auditing a Continuum of Care Program in California.  The City Controller issued a report on August 28, 2019, criticizing the grantee for falling short of its homeless outreach goals and considered the goals as ill-defined and not in alignment with County benchmarks.  Data from HUD indicates the grantee had nine grants expire in 2017 and 2018 with balances totaling nearly $4.5 million as of September 2019.

We conducted this limited review to identify the U.S.

We initiated our audit in accordance with our strategic goal to provide the U.S.

We audited the City of Bridgeport CT’s HOME Investment Partnerships program based on an Office of Inspector General risk assessment, which ranked the City as the second highest risk HOME grantee in New England.  The objective of the audit was to determine whether the City properly committed and disbursed HOME funds in accordance with Federal and U.S.

We audited the Housing Authority of the County of Stanislaus’ Shelter Plus Care program based on a hotline complaint and concerns expressed by the San Francisco Office of Community Planning and Development regarding the Authority’s lack of documentation to support participant eligibility.  Our objective was to determine whether the Authority documented participant eligibility related to homelessness and disability in accordance with Shelter Plus Care program requirements.

We audited the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino’s Continuum of Care grant funds received from the U.S.

We audited the State of New York’s Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery-funded New York Rising Buyout and Acquisition program.  We initiated this audit due to concerns related to whether properties purchased were substantially damaged.  The objective of this audit was to determine whether the State ensured that properties purchased under the acquisition component of the program met applicable U.S.