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Criteria: Housing quality inspections must be performed at the time of initial occupancy and at least annually thereafter to assure that the units are decent, safe, and sanitary. In addition, the inspection reports should be maintained in the correspondence tenant files.
Condition: 8 of the 40 required annual housing quality inspections selected for testing had not been completed within one year of the previous inspection.
Cause: Procedures to ensure that the required annual housing inspections were performed within one year of the previous inspection did not exist.
Effect: Housing could potentially not meet the requirement that it be decent, safe, and sanitary.
Auditor's Recommendation: We recommend that an internal control procedure to ensure that the required annual housing inspections are performed within one year of the previous inspection be implemented.
Views of Responsible Officials and Planned Corrective Action: Management will continue to work consistently to comply with performing unit inspections on at least an annual basis to determine whether the appliances and equipment in the units are functioning properly. Management will ensure that annual inspections commence in April 2024 to ensure that all units are inspected within 365 days of the last unit inspection.