HUD Releases Notice for Implementing Risk Analyses of CPD Grantees
On September 12, HUD issued Notice CPD–2023-08, which is meant to provide consistent methodology for conducting risk analyses for Community Planning and Development (CPD) formula and competitive grantees. The notice also establishes monitoring priorities within CPD’s Grants Management Process Reporting (GMP-R) system.
The notice supersedes Notice CPD-22-11, which implemented a risk analysis methodology that considered risk factors, sub factors, and symptomatic causes in program performance.
The new notice incorporates revisions to CPD’s risk analysis policies and procedures to provide greater flexibility towards CPD’s monitoring obligations. The revisions are intended to augment departmental policy to include:
- Developing risk-based rating systems to evaluate all program grantees;
- Rating and selecting grantees for monitoring;
- Identifying program risks and setting monitoring objectives; and
- Documenting the process and recording the rationale for choosing grantees to be monitored.
In addition, the notice highlights the role of CPD Field Offices in performing risk analysis and ratings for grantees/grants.
Programs assessed under this notice include:
- Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG)
- HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)
- Emergency Solutions Grants Program (ESG)
- Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program (HOPWA)
- Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program Competitive (HOPWA-C)
- Continuum of Care (CoC)
- Neighborhood Stabilization Programs (NSP 1, 2, and 3)
- Section 8 Single Room Occupancy Moderate Rehabilitation (SRO)
- Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR, including CDBG-NDR and CDBG-MIT funds)
- Community Development Block Grant-CARES Act (CDBG-CV)
- Emergency Solutions Grants Program-CARES Act (ESG-CV)
- Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program-CARES Act (HOPWA-CV)
- Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program Competitive-CARES Act (HOPWA-C-CV)
- Recovery Housing Program (RHP)
- Housing Trust Fund (HTF)
To view the full notice, see here.