Finding Text
2021-020 Tenant Files – Unit Inspections Not Completed Annually
Federal Awards:
14-850 Public and Indian Housing Low Rent Program
14-870 Housing Choice Vouchers
Criteria:
The Housing Authority must ensure that the units are inspected annually. Public housing and multifamily housing properties are inspected every 1 to 3 years and upon move out and move ins. The housing choice voucher program unit must be inspected before the property can rented and afterwards, inspections occur every 1 to 2 years.
Condition:
We noted some tenant files were not inspected prior to the tenants moving in, as well as then being inspected on an annual basis.
Questioned Costs:
Unknown.
Effect:
Housing conditions for those units may not have been up to the standard required.
Cause:
Lack of oversight by prior Fayetteville Housing Authority Management.
Recommendation:
The Fayetteville Housing Authority must ensure that all units are inspected annually in order to ensure that the conditions are up to the required standards.