{"id":45795,"date":"2025-01-17T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nahro.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45795"},"modified":"2025-01-17T10:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:54:32","slug":"senate-holds-nomination-hearing-for-hud-secretary-designate","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.nahro.org\/news\/senate-holds-nomination-hearing-for-hud-secretary-designate\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Holds Nomination Hearing for HUD Secretary-Designate\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Thursday, January 16, 2025<\/strong> \u2014 Scott Turner, President-Elect Trump\u2019s nominee for HUD Secretary, appeared before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Newly elected Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) presided over a collegial hearing. Senators from both parties asked questions and shared their observations and hopes for the new administration as it takes on the affordable housing crisis, many with a heavy emphasis on building more housing supply to meet the growing demand. From a prepared statement, Scott explained <strong>\u201cas we sit here, we have a housing crisis in our country, where American people and families are struggling every day. HUD is failing at its most basic mission.\u201d<\/strong> Turner also echoed bipartisan calls for building more homes, <strong>\u201cwe need millions more homes of all kinds, single family, apartments, condos, duplexes, manufactured housing, you name it.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans on the Committee praised Turner\u2019s experience as someone that started in poverty and reached the National Football League as a testament to his character and his temperament to lead HUD. GOP Senators also praised Turner\u2019s past work in the first Trump administration to develop Opportunity Zones. Turner promised to explore these further in Trump\u2019s second term.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats on the Committee pressed Turner on some of Trump\u2019s first term housing policies, but failed to get commitments regarding whether the incoming administration would take steps to avoid certain policy decisions pursued in Trump\u2019s first administration. When asked for firm commitments on whether the administration will remove families with mixed immigration status from housing and uphold fair housing market policies, Turner echoed his commitment to further studying the policies themselves.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turner pledged to meet with many of the Senators on the committee and conduct a review of existing HUD policies and programs to assess their effectiveness. He echoed Republicans in the House and Senate that have criticized HUD\u2019s management of appropriated funds, which may be setting up cuts in the next administration. Turner also spoke of his plans to make HUD staff return to in-person office work, a reversal from the Biden-era HUD policies allowing many employees to work remotely and from home. Turner\u2019s nomination is expected to advance out of the committee where the full Senate will vote to confirm him to take the reins at HUD.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAHRO looks forward to working with the incoming Trump administration in finding solutions to the housing challenges currently faced across the country. Read NAHRO\u2019s transition report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nahro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-NAHRO-Presidential-Transition-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and NAHRO\u2019s joint recommendations with PHADA, CLPHA, and the MTW Collaborative to the incoming administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nahro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IndustryGroups_PresidentialTransitionLtr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 16, 2025 \u2014 Scott Turner, President-Elect Trump\u2019s nominee for HUD Secretary, appeared before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 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