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President-elect <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> has tapped Scott Turner to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a crucial role amid a national housing crisis and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/25/rent-housing-costs/" target="_blank">widespread affordability problems.</a>

Turner, a former professional football player, served in Trump’s first administration as executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, a group of White House advisers tasked with magnifying impacts of opportunity zones, an economic tool for investing in distressed areas. In an <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113529566564028972" target=_blank>announcement on Truth Social</a> on Friday night, Trump said that under Turner’s leadership, opportunity zones received over $50 billion in private investment. Turner also served in the Texas state legislature.

The nomination comes as housing issues persist as a top economic problem, particularly for aspiring buyers and renters struggling to keep up with rising costs. Created as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, HUD oversees policies to tackle housing needs and enforce fair housing laws. It also administers key programs for public housing and rental assistance through Section 8 vouchers. The department also promotes homeownership for low- and moderate-income families through mortgage insurance programs.

That vast portfolio has taken on added urgency since the pandemic sent shock waves through the housing market and sent costs soaring. The lingering effects are still top of mind for millions of Americans, many of whom cited affordability as a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/20/housing-cost-economy-swing-states-election/" target="_blank">major concern in the 2024 election.</a>

Housing was front and center during the campaign, with Trump and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/08/kamala-harris-housing-plan-yimby/" target="_blank">Vice President Kamala Harris</a> each taking different approaches to easing affordability and making more homes available. Trump’s team routinely talked about deporting undocumented immigrants as a way to open up housing supply, a claim that has been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/02/vance-immigration-housing/" target="_blank">widely debunked</a> by economists and other experts. Since Trump’s victory, industry players also expect lighter regulations that could cut down on builder costs and wait times.

But the market, especially for affordable housing, is still under strain. Many developers opt out of building affordable units because they can’t make the math work with high construction and financing costs. And while hundreds of thousands of new units are wrapping up construction and hitting the market, many of those properties skew toward the higher end of the market.

During Trump’s first term, he chose neurosurgeon Ben Carson to run the department. Carson entered the role with no prior housing experience and oversaw a significant scaling back of fair housing and civil rights enforcement. He also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/03/ben-carsons-latest-plan-weaken-fair-housing-enforcement/" target="_blank">criticized</a> efforts from Washington to desegregate American neighborhoods as “failed socialist experiments,” and said his focus instead was on building affordable housing through deregulation and easing zoning restrictions.

Yale University, BA in History

Rachel Siegel covers the economics of real estate and housing. She previously covered the Federal Reserve. Before joining The Post in June 2017, Rachel contributed to The Marshall Project and The Dallas Morning News.

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