United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-06-21 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:GAO-01-668 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-668 P0b002ee18037a8c5 f:d01668 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-668 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-668 GAO-01-668 Housing programs Building inspection Housing repairs Low income housing Noncompliance Other Written Product A01223

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assists nearly 30,000 privately owned and operated multifamily properties to provide affordable housing for low and moderate income populations. HUD is responsible for ensuring that the owners of HUD-assisted properties provide housing that is decent, safe, sanitary, and in good repair. However, some of the properties are in poor quality. HUD implemented its Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) in 1998 to inspect multifamily properties, and rate their condition. This report addresses whether: (1) HUD field offices are complying with the procedures HUD established to ensure that the physical deficiencies at these properties are corrected, (2) all physical deficiencies have been corrected at properties that HUD classified as repaired, and (3) HUD staff and property owners are meeting the Department's timeliness goals and requirements for addressing physical deficiencies. GAO found that HUD's field offices frequently did not follow the Department's procedures for ensuring that property owners are correcting all physical deficiencies. On the basis of GAO's site visits to properties that HUD classified as repaired, about half of the property covered by GAO's analysis were not corrected. Furthermore, HUD's staff and property owners are not meeting timeliness goals and requirements for addressing physical deficiencies. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-668/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-668.htm GAO-01-668 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-668 Other Written Product GAO-01-668; HUD Multifamily Housing: Improved Follow-up Needed to Ensure That Physical Problems Are Corrected; Housing programs Building inspection Housing repairs Low income housing Noncompliance Title 42 Section 1437et seq. 42 U.S.C. 1437et seq.