HUD is way behind on a crucial data sharing, anti-fraud portal

Published: Aug. 28, 2023, 11:49 a.m.

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of something like 30 agencies that have a hand in disaster recovery. In trying to avoid duplicating benefits to disaster victims, in 2017 HUD started work on a data portal. A place where grantees would load information on benefits the had already received, so HUD could see it. HUD's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found the data portal is only partially completed. The OIG also found questions about whether the portal is a high enough priority for HUD's technology staff. To all of this out, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke in studio with HUD Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices