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GAO-20-500PR 1 (2020-04-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebau0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States April 23, 2020 The Honorable Ben Carson Secretary U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 451 7th Street, SW Washington, DC 20410 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Housing and Urban Development Dear Mr. Secretary: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2019, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 Over the last 4 years, HUD's average recommendation implementation rate was 65 percent.3 As of March 2020, HUD had 130 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve HUD's operations. Since our April 2019 letter, we have not closed any of our nine priority recommendations.4 We ask your continued attention to those areas, including HUD's efforts to address lead paint hazards, enhance oversight of the Moving to Work demonstration, and improve information technology (IT) management. We are adding eight new recommendations as priorities this year, related to the Government National Mortgage Corporation's (Ginnie Mae) risk management and staffing-related challenges, Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding, and HUD's management of cybersecurity. This brings the total number of priority recommendations to 17. (See enclosure for the full list of recommendations.) The 17 priority recommendations fall into the following six areas: 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2019. GAO=20-1 SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 19, 2019). 3The implementation rate is the percent of recommendations made 4 years prior that were implemented by the agency. HUD's implementation rate for the past 4 fiscal years was 28 percent in 2019, 60 percent in 2018, 86 percent in 2017, and 87 percent in 2016-an average of 65 percent. 4GAO, Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Housing and Urban Development. GAO-I 9-380SP (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 3, 2019). GAO-20-500PR HUD Priority Recommendations Page 1

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