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Rental Housing: Opportunities Exist to Improve Oversight of Assistance to Survivors of Domestic Violence or Sexual Assault
GAO-24-106481
Jul 11, 2024
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7 Open Recommendations
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Director on Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Equity finalizes a revised model emergency transfer plan that meets all VAWA regulatory requirements. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Assistant Secretary for PIH provides written instructions to PHAs, such as through notices or frequently asked questions, on how to implement emergency transfers, including information related to external transfers and coordination. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing provides written instructions to PBRA providers, such as through notices or frequently asked questions, on how to implement emergency transfers, including information related to external transfers and coordination. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing revises the management and occupancy review form (HUD-9834) to incorporate specific questions on PBRA properties' compliance with VAWA emergency transfer requirements. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Director on Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Equity finalizes a regulation implementing the compliance review requirements of VAWA 2022, including defining standards of compliance and standards for corrective action plans. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure the Assistant Secretary for PIH develops and implements a plan, including a timeline, for PIH to collect the required data on emergency transfers from PHAs. (Recommendation 6)
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HUD Rental Assistance: Improved Guidance and Oversight Needed for Utility Allowances
GAO-24-105532
Jun 27, 2024
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing and the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research develop a plan to solicit feedback on usability challenges that PHAs may face using HUSM. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing works with the Customer Experience Division to make utility allowance guidance more available and accessible on HUD's website, including by improving website navigability and optimizing the search bar. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing includes feedback mechanisms and HUD contact information in utility allowance guidance or on HUD guidance web pages for PHAs. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing takes initial steps toward collecting PHAs' utility allowance schedules for the Public Housing program, such as determining how existing IT systems could be leveraged or modified to capture the information, defining the content and format of PHA reporting, and estimating associated costs. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing develops mechanisms to regularly analyze utility allowance data for patterns that indicate a risk of noncompliance with HUD requirements and incorporates such analysis into monitoring reviews of PHAs. (Recommendation 5)
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Emergency Rental Assistance: Treasury Should Improve Data Completeness and Public Reporting
GAO-24-107084
May 23, 2024
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Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury should ensure that the Chief of the Office of Capital Access revise ERA2 public reports to include language disclosing details on potential underreporting of ERA2 expenditures, demographic information, and payments to households, and on local jurisdictions' transfer of funds. (Recommendation 1)
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Manufactured Housing: Further HUD Action is Needed to Increase Available Loan Products
GAO-23-105615
Sep 26, 2023
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2 Open Recommendations
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development should ensure that the Commissioner of FHA implement planned changes to provide additional financing options for manufactured homes, including identifying options for greater securitization of manufactured home mortgages and personal property loans and establishing time frames and milestones for the actions. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development should ensure that the President of Ginnie Mae implement planned changes to provide additional financing options for manufactured homes, including identifying options for greater securitization of manufactured home mortgages and personal property loans and establishing time frames and milestones for the actions. (Recommendation 2)
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