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    Restrictive Housing: Actions Needed to Enhance BOP and ICE Management and OversightGAO-24-107494
      
	Published:  Apr 16, 2024


	Publicly Released: Apr 16, 2024
          Evictions: National Data Are Limited and Challenging to CollectGAO-24-106637
      
	Published:  Feb 28, 2024


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	Published:  Feb 07, 2024


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          Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: Opportunities to Improve OversightGAO-24-107064
      
	Published:  Dec 14, 2023


	Publicly Released: Dec 14, 2023
          Financial Audit: Federal Housing Finance Agency's FY 2023 and FY 2022 Financial StatementsGAO-24-106668
      
	Published:  Nov 15, 2023


	Publicly Released: Nov 15, 2023
    
    

  
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        Manufactured Housing: Further HUD Action is Needed to Increase Available Loan ProductsGAO-23-105615
      
						Sep 26, 2023
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          2Open Recommendations

          Agency Affected
                                                  Recommendation
                                                  StatusDepartment 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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
          Military Barracks: Poor Living Conditions Undermine Quality of Life and ReadinessGAO-23-105797
      
						Sep 19, 2023
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          31Open Recommendations

          Agency Affected
                                                  Recommendation
                                                  StatusDepartment of Defense
                                                                                        The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment examines how the services conduct condition assessments for barracks and, based on that review, provides guidance to the services on how they should conduct these assessments, including, as appropriate, revisiting requirements related to the frequency of assessments, the number of systems to be assessed, the necessary level of inspector expertise, and the model used to conduct assessments. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.Department of Defense
                                                                                        The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment clarifies DOD guidance on minimum standards for assignment to barracks related to health and safety, such as identifying health and safety risks serious enough to prevent installations from assigning service members to live in a barracks facility or room. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.Department of Defense
                                                                                        The Secretary of the Army should update the Army's minimum standards for assignment to barracks to ensure they reflect DOD's guidance on health and safety standards for barracks once DOD's minimum standards have been clarified. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.Department of Defense
                                                                                        The Secretary of the Navy should update the Navy's minimum standards for assignment to barracks to ensure they reflect DOD's guidance on health and safety standards for barracks once DOD's minimum standards have been clarified. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
          Affordable Housing: Improvements Needed in HUD's Oversight of the Housing Trust Fund ProgramGAO-23-105370
      
						Aug 08, 2023
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          5Open Recommendations

          Agency Affected
                                                  Recommendation
                                                  StatusDepartment 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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
          Military Housing: Army Should Improve Inspection Oversight and Long-Term Capital Investment ProjectionsGAO-23-105983
      
						Jul 27, 2023
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          2Open Recommendations

          Agency Affected
                                                  Recommendation
                                                  StatusDepartment 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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.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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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
    
    

  
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