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HUD OIG is reviewing a residential care facility in New York. This facility owns and manages a long-term care facility, senior apartment residence, and retirement community programs and has a reported unpaid principal mortgage balance of more than $8 million as of December 31, 2025. Our audit objective is to determine if the facility was operated in accordance with its regulatory agreement and HUD requirements.
As part of our mission to safeguard the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) programs from fraud, waste, and abuse, and to identify opportunities for HUD programs to progress and succeed, we selected Colorado for a review of potential improper payments. Our audit objective was to determine whether Colorado made improper non-Federal match activity payments. We also assessed whether the Office of Community Planning and Development’s Office of Disaster Recovery (CPD ODR) had sufficient and adequate controls to prevent improper match payments.
Danita Wade has served with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General (OIG) since 1999, and most recently held the role of Disaster Recovery Division’s Audit Director in the Fort Worth, Texas office. In this role, she oversaw audit oversight responsibility for HUD’s $109 billion disaster recovery program, where she managed four audit teams with staff located throughout the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico offices.
G. Todd Gagon was appointed Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audit and Evaluation for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General (HUD OIG), in April 2026. As Deputy Assistant Inspector General, he is responsible for supporting the Assistant Inspector General for Audit and Evaluation in providing executive-level leadership and direction to headquarters operations, single audit act reviews, and OIG evaluations.
We found that the photovoltaic systems (PV) and water tanks installed in participant’s homes had deficiencies. Such deficiencies included inverters and batteries with signs of rust; water intrusion that could lead to electrical shorts; electrical conduits that were degrading due to direct exposure to the sun; electrical conduits with water; and water tanks that were leaking, overflowing, or both. Based on statistical projections, at least 57 percent of installations had at least one deficiency.
HUD OIG is auditing a California-based grantee’s CDBG, CDBG-CV, HOPWA, and ESG programs. The grantee was allocated about $15 million for these grant programs to address housing, homeless, community and economic needs. Our audit objective is to determine whether draws made by the grantee near the time of the hold in federal funding were in accordance with program requirements.
