DC Housing Authority failed its audit a third straight year and made none of 40 fixes
An independent audit firm, CliftonLarsonAllen, declined for the third consecutive fiscal year to give an opinion on the DC Housing Authority's financial statements, saying in its FY2025 report (transmitted by the DC Inspector General on July 15, 2026) that DCHA could not provide sufficient evidence for its business-type activity balances. The audit found eight material weaknesses, seven repeated from FY2024. In a July 17, 2026 letter to the Council's Committee on Housing, DC Auditor Kathleen Patterson wrote that a November 2025 Inspector General follow-up found none of the prior year's 40 recommendations had been addressed, and that District subsidies and exchange transactions made up $348 million, 40% of DCHA revenue, in FY2025. The Auditor says the District's own annual financial report still leaves DCHA out. DCHA's response to the audit was not found in the documents reviewed.
In a recommendation follow-up report published on November 19, 2025, the Inspector General found that none of the 40 recommendations had been addressed.
In this report, CLA noted eight material weaknesses relating to the Authority's financial reporting. Due to the significance of these issues, CLA did not express an opinion on the agency's financial statements.
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