Finding Text
Criteria: Under the Special Tests and Provisions compliance requirement, the housing quality standards provision requires that annual inspections must be done at the time of initial occupancy, and at least annually thereafter.
Cause: The Project experienced significant plumbing issues during the fiscal year, which took employee manpower and staff hours to correct. As a result, employees did not have time to complete all the required unit inspections during the year.
Effect: The procedures for maintaining tenant housing inspections were not consistently applied in accordance with HUD requirements.
Recommendation: We recommend that the Project comply with written procedures to inspect units that are past the annual inspection period timely.
Views of responsible officials and planned corrective actions: Management agrees with the finding and will take corrective action to ensure all annual inspections will be performed at the time of annual recertification.