HUD Hires Expert to Improve FHA Operations, Risk Management. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced Biniam Gebre as the new general deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Housing. He will be joining the FHA leadership team. Before joining HUD, Gebre served as a principal at global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where he led a company-wide, public-sector initiative to develop insights, tools and approaches for building capabilities in ...