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GAO-24-107284 1 (2024-06-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqjg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States June 3, 2024 The Honorable Adrianne Todman Acting 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 Madam Acting 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.' In November 2023, we reported that, on a government-wide basis, 75 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 HUD's recommendation implementation rate was 74 percent. As of May 2024, HUD had 92 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. In our May 2023 letter, we noted that 11 of our open recommendations were priority recommendations. Since that time, HUD implemented two of these recommendations and we closed one recommendation as no longer valid.3 In September 2023, HUD issued guidance on roles and responsibilities when engaging with public housing agencies to help them comply with the Lead Safe Housing Rule. This guidance implements two of our recommendations. First, it establishes a plan for monitoring public housing agencies' compliance with lead paint regulations and describes the roles and responsibilities within HUD for coordinating its oversight and engaging with public housing agencies. Second, the guidance establishes procedures to address noncompliance with 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 2023, GAO-24-900483 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2023). 3We closed our March 2019 recommendation for the Real Estate Assessment Center to conduct a comprehensive review of its physical inspection process because the process in question is no longer in use. In 2023, HUD implemented a new inspection process. GAO, Real Estate Assessment Center: HUD Should Improve Physical Inspection Process and Oversight of Inspectors, GAO-1 9-254 (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 21, 2019). GAO-24-107284 Page 1

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