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Internal Controls: Weaknesses in HUD's Single Family Housing Appraisal Program

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 30, 1987
Report No. RCED-87-165
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Summary:

GAO analyzed the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) efforts to correct weaknesses in its single-family housing appraisal program.

GAO found that HUD: (1) selected appraisals for review without a systematic, statistical sample; (2) did not meet the requirements of its present review program; and (3) used fee appraisers to perform field reviews of other appraisers' work, despite indications that this practice increased the potential for fraud, waste, and abuse. GAO also found that HUD field offices: (1) overrode random computer selections of appraisers and assigned them manually without adequate supervision or documentation; (2) did not provide regularly scheduled training for fee appraisers; and (3) failed to terminate appraisers who were performing unsatisfactorily.

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