HUD Secretary Scott Turner on 100 Days of Change: Housing Affordability & Policy Shifts

HUD's Mission-Minded Focus

• 🎯 HUD has returned to a mission-minded focus, addressing the nation's housing affordability crisis, homelessness crisis, and disaster recovery.
• 🔑 The team is deliberately staying focused on the mission, prioritizing key issues.

Regulatory Reform and Housing Affordability

• 🏗️ Burdensome regulations that hinder home builders and limit local zoning flexibility are being dismantled.
• 💡 Encouraging localities to ease regulatory environments is crucial for housing affordability, development, and disaster recovery.
• 🏠 Families displaced by disasters need to rebuild their homes and lives, which is currently hampered by heavy regulations.

Policy Changes and Restored Principles

• ⚖️ The Equal Access Rule has been rescinded, restoring the ability for HUD-funded facilities to provide services based on biological sex at birth.
• 🛡️ This change aims to protect women and victims of domestic violence in shelters by ensuring services are provided according to sex at birth.
• 🇺🇸 A Memorandum of Understanding with DHS ensures American citizens are the priority for HUD-funded housing, preventing illegal aliens from receiving these benefits.
• 🚫 Enforcement of citizenship requirements for FHA-backed mortgages has been strengthened.

Financial Stewardship and Savings

• 💰 Over $2 billion in savings have been identified at HUD, including $260 million in contracts and $1.9 billion in deobligated funds returned to the Treasury.
• 🎖️ HUD-VASH has been restored, providing $2.2 million to homeless veterans.
• 🤝 A DODGE task force has been instrumental in finding these savings, working collaboratively with HUD staff.

Commitment to Excellence

• 🌟 The agency is striving for excellence in all HUD-funded operations, ensuring American citizens living in these houses are served at the highest standard.
• 🔍 HUD is conducting a detailed inventory of all program offices to maximize the budget and serve the intended population.