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Manufactured Housing: Further HUD Action is Needed to Increase Available Loan Products
GAO-23-105615
Sep 26, 2023
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2 Open Recommendations
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development should ensure that the Commissioner of FHA implement planned changes to provide additional financing options for manufactured homes, including identifying options for greater securitization of manufactured home mortgages and personal property loans and establishing time frames and milestones for the actions. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development should ensure that the President of Ginnie Mae implement planned changes to provide additional financing options for manufactured homes, including identifying options for greater securitization of manufactured home mortgages and personal property loans and establishing time frames and milestones for the actions. (Recommendation 2)
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Military Barracks: Poor Living Conditions Undermine Quality of Life and Readiness
GAO-23-105797
Sep 19, 2023
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31 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that DOD develops a method to track and report complete Operation & Maintenance and Military Construction funding information in a combined manner for barracks housing programs, especially with respect to funding needed to improve barracks conditions, including both funding requirements and expenditures. In addition, the method should track and report complete Military Personnel funding with respect to funding needed to house service members typically required to live in barracks, such as service members living in private sector housing due to insufficient space in barracks, including both funding requirements and expenditures. (Recommendation 15)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of the Army should reevaluate existing Army policies regarding barracks manager positions for permanent party and training barracks, including whether barracks managers should be part time or full time and civilian or military and the level of training required, to ensure that the personnel structure is established at the levels necessary to accomplish mission and performance objectives. (Recommendation 26)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of the Navy, in coordination with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, should update the Marine Corps' minimum standards for assignment to barracks to ensure they reflect DOD guidance on health and safety standards for barracks once DOD's minimum standards have been clarified. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of the Army should develop and implement a method to ensure that the Army has visibility into all barracks Military Construction requirements identified at the installation level, regardless of whether they are submitted for funding. (Recommendation 16)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of the Navy should reevaluate existing Navy policies regarding barracks manager positions for permanent party and training barracks, including whether barracks managers should be part time or full time and civilian or military and the level of training required, to ensure that the personnel structure is established at the levels necessary to accomplish mission and performance objectives. (Recommendation 27)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of the Air Force should update the Air Force's minimum standards for assignment to barracks to ensure they reflect DOD guidance on health and safety standards for barracks once DOD's minimum standards have been clarified. (Recommendation 6)
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Affordable Housing: Improvements Needed in HUD's Oversight of the Housing Trust Fund Program
GAO-23-105370
Aug 08, 2023
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5 Open Recommendations
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development revises HUD's public reports on HTF to disclose that the amount of non-HTF funds may be underreported and that HTF units are only a portion of the total units in HTF-assisted projects. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development develops and implements a centralized process to monitor HTF grantees' compliance with the requirement to enter completion information in IDIS within 120 days of the final project drawdown and provides additional instruction to grantees about this requirement. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development develops and implements a centralized process to monitor data in IDIS on the total number of units in completed projects for likely errors and provides additional instruction to grantees about inputting these data. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development uses additional methods, such as formal notices and training, to enhance communication of the cost certification requirement to grantees. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Housing and Urban Development The Secretary of HUD should ensure that the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development schedules and conducts a comprehensive assessment of HTF fraud risks in accordance with GAO's Fraud Risk Framework and HUD's fraud risk management policy. (Recommendation 4)
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Military Housing: Army Should Improve Inspection Oversight and Long-Term Capital Investment Projections
GAO-23-105983
Jul 27, 2023
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that DASA (IH&P), in coordination with Army Materiel Command, IMCOM, and Lendlease, develops a standardized reporting process to facilitate oversight of all ICC inspections to share with local Army housing offices. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that DASA (IH&P) enforces its requirement for privatized housing projects to include an updated pro forma when submitting development plans for Army review and approval. (Recommendation 2)
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