A high proportion of homebuyers abused and defrauded the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s "Officer Next Door/Teacher Next Door" program, prompting the agency’s inspector general to call for tighter monitoring and controls. Initial results of a nationwide audit of the program conducted by HUD’s Office of the Inspector General showed that seven out of 29 homebuyers reviewed had violated the program by either renting, selling, or not living in the property they picked from