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RESULTS OF AUDIT
Finding 1: The Authority Did Not Adequately Enforce HUD鈥檚 Housing
Quality Standards
Of 66 program units selected for inspection, 54 failed to meet housing quality standards. The
deficiencies occurred because the Authority did not exercise proper supervision and oversight of
its program unit inspections. Also, the Authority was unable to track its annual program unit
inspections. It also lacked adequate procedures and controls to ensure that its program units met
HUD鈥檚 housing quality standards. As a result, it did not use $110,850 in program funds for units
that were decent, safe, and sanitary. Based on our inspections, we estimate that over the next
year, HUD will pay more than $4 million in housing assistance payments for units with material
violations of housing quality standards.
Section 8 Tenant-Based
Housing Units Were Not in
Compliance with HUD鈥檚
Housing Quality Standards
We statistically selected 66 units from a housing assistance payment check
register, which indicated that 1,882 tenants were under lease from August 1 to
August 31, 2006. The 66 units were selected to determine whether the Authority
ensured that the units in its program met housing quality standards. Audit staff
inspected 10 of the 66 units, and our appraiser inspected the remaining 56 units.
Of the 66 units inspected, 54 (81 percent) had 316 housing quality standards
violations. Additionally, 28 of the 66 units either had multiple material violations
that predated the Authority鈥檚 last inspection but were not identified by Authority鈥檚
inspector or had 24-hour health and safety violations that predated the Authority鈥檚
last inspection. Of the 28 units that materially failed, there were 98 violations that
existed before the last inspection report. The following table categorizes the 316
housing quality standards violations in the 54 units.
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