Today's audits: an interesting GAO/OIG split

An audit out today from HUD OIG finds insufficiently explained drawdowns of grant funding by WomenRising, Inc., a New Jersey nonprofit serving homeless women and their children through the Supportive Housing Program under the McKinney-Vento "Continuum of Care." "This occurred because the grantee believed it was entitled to the full amount of the grant; therefore, it drew down these funds without adequate support." Unremarkable in itself -- bigger investigations happen all the time -- but maybe interesting because there haven't been all that many audits of McKinney-Vento grantees lately. Maybe even more interesting because the complaint came from GAO and involved a grab bag of worse allegations that the HUD auditors said they didn't find when they went in.

Also today, a quite critical OIG audit finding substandard conditions for Sec. 8 voucher tenants in the city of Winston-Salem.

And yesterday GAO posted "preliminary observations" by the Comptroller General based on GAO's investigation into the 2005 hurricane preparedness fiasco.