HUD’s Doge employees come from AI real estate companies and a mobile home operator

According to records from Wired’s review, the current balance in the LOCCS system exceeds $100 billion – the Monetary Conference has approved the HUD project, but has not been reduced. A source at the agency said that much of the money has been accused of covering disaster assistance and community development efforts.

Department employees say that normally those with access to LOCC need additional processing and approval to access the system, and that most people only have “read” access.

“Reading/writing is about executing contracts and grants on the LOCC,” one person said. “It usually has a strict banking process that revolves around doing anything with funds. For example, you usually need at least two people to approve any decision, just like you are a bank teller in a physical bank.”

HUD said the document indicates that HUD’s Doge operator’s second system has both read and write access and the HUD Central Accounting and Planning System (HUDCAPS), which is the “integrated management system for Section 8 plans under the jurisdiction of the Public and Indian Housing Office.” (Section 8 is a federal program managed by local housing agencies that provides rental assistance to millions of low-income households in the form of vouchers.) The system is a pioneer of LOCC and is currently being phased out but is still used to process payments for housing vouchers and contains a large amount of personal information.

A source familiar with the system said there are currently 2.3 million families receiving housing certificates in the United States, but according to HUD’s own data, the HUDCAPS database contains information about more individuals because historical data is retained because more individuals are retained. People applying for HUD programs (such as housing certificates) must submit sensitive personal information, including medical records and personal narratives.

“People delegate these stories to HUD,” the source said. “It’s not the data in these systems, it’s the operational trust.”

The WASS or Web Access security subsystem is the third system that Doge has read and write access, although only Mirski’s documents reviewed by WIRED can access this system. It is used to grant permissions to other HUD systems. A user manual says: “Most features in WASS include finding information stored in various tables to tell the security subsystem who you are, where you can go and what you can do when you get there.”

HUD sources familiar with the Mirski access level said: “WASS is an application that provides provisioning rights to most other HUD systems,” because usually HUD employees do not have read access, let alone write access. “WASS is a system that sets permissions for all other systems.”

In addition to these three systems, the file also shows that Mirski only reads two other systems. First, the Integrated Expenditure and Information System (IDI) is a database that tracks all HUD programs nationwide. (“IDIS has confidential data on the hidden location of domestic violence shelters,” the HUD source said. “So, even reading access is terrible.”) Another is the Financial Assessment of Public Housing (FASS-PH), a database designed to “measure the financial status of public housing institutions and provide safe and decent housing capabilities based on Hud’s website.”