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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.
HUD OIG is conducting an evaluation of housing conditions at an Oregon based Public Housing Authority (PHA). All HUD-assisted housing units are subject to meet quality standards for decent, safe, and sanitary housing. Our evaluation objective is to determine whether an Oregon based PHA provided decent, safe, and sanitary housing at its developments.
We are auditing HUD's compliance with the Geospatial Data Act. The Act requires the 16 covered agencies be audited every two years. The objective of our audit is to determine whether HUD has complied with the 13 responsibilities stated in the Act, regarding its collection, production, acquisition, maintenance, distribution, use, and preservation of geospatial data.
We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Residential Care Facilities’ (ORCF), oversight of Section 232 residential care facilities’ mortgage insurance program. We performed this audit because HUD-insured residential care facility loan defaults were rising. As of June 2024, 167 of the 3,670 HUD-insured Section 232 borrowers, or nearly 5 percent, defaulted on their mortgages. These 167 loans had an unpaid principal balance of more than $1.1 billion.
We audited the Government National Mortgage Association’s (Ginnie Mae) management of its portfolio of federally guaranteed mortgage-backed securities (MBS). We initiated this audit because of our internal monitoring of the Ginnie Mae portfolio as well as the issuance of a Financial Stability Oversight Council report in 2024 on the rising risks presented by nonbank mortgage companies. Our audit objective was to assess Ginnie Mae's evaluation of nonbank issuer concentration risk.
