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Finding No. 2022-003 Housing Choice Voucher Cluster, CFDA #14.871 and #14.879 Compliance Requirement: Special Tests and Provisions Type of Finding: Noncompliance, Significant Deficiency Condition The Authority?s Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers program does not have an updated board adopted Administrative Plan that reflects the order of preference of selecting applicants off the waiting list. Additionally, the Authority is not managing its waiting list in accordance with HUD rules and regulations. Criteria When the Authority is awarded Mainstream vouchers, these vouchers must be used for new admissions to the program from the waiting list. The Authority must lease these vouchers by pulling the first Mainstream-eligible family from its tenant-based waiting list. The Authority is not permitted to reassign existing participants to the program in order to make regular tenant-based vouchers available. Further, the Authority may not skip over Mainstream-eligible families on the waiting list because the Authority is serving the required number of Mainstream families. Cause The overall cause was a lack of quality control in understanding the importance of waiting list selections in accordance with HUD rules and regulations. Effect The Housing Authority could be admitting applicants not in the preferred order. Context A review of the Authority?s Administrative Plan revealed it has not been updated to reflect how Mainstream applicants are selected from the waiting list and at what preference. Additionally, the waiting list is not being managed in accordance with HUD rules and regulations. Questioned Costs N/A Recommendation The Housing Authority should adopt a board-approved Administrative Plan that properly defines how applicants are selected from the waiting list. 59