Finding Text
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Federal Financial Assistance Listing 14.195
Section 8 Project‐Based Cluster ‐ Project Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) ‐ Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment Program
Compliance Requirement: Special Test and Provisions – Housing Quality Standards
Type of Finding: Material Weakness in internal control over compliance
Criteria: The Public Housing Agency or owner must provide housing that is decent, safe, and sanitary. To achieve this end, the Public Housing Agency or owner must perform housing quality inspections at the time of initial occupancy and at least annually thereafter to ensure that the units are decent, safe, and sanitary (24 CFR sections 880.612, 881.601, 882.516, 882.808(n), 883.701, 884.217, 886.123, and 886.323).
Condition: Annual housing quality inspections did not occur at one of the properties operating under Section 8 during 2024.
Cause: Turnover at the property management level caused the annual inspections to not take place in 2024.
Effect: Annual inspections did not occur on units at one of the properties during 2024.
Questioned Costs: None reported.
Context/Sampling: A non statistical sample of 60 units out of 465 units were selected for special test and provision testing.
Repeat Finding from Prior Year: No
Recommendation: Management should implement a compensating control at an overall company level that ensures annual inspections are occurring at all properties operated under Section 8.
Views of Responsible Officials: Housing’s management agrees with the finding.