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Oppose Scott Turner As Next HUD Secretary

Date:
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Time:
10:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Event Type:
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Organizer/Author:
Lynda Carson
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Stop Scott Turner From Becoming The Next HUD Secretary!

Click on the link below to send an email to all the Democrat members to voice your opposition to Scott Turner now!

Click below...

https://www.banking.senate.gov/about/membership

NOMINATION HEARING

Nomination Hearing

DATE:   Thursday, January 16, 2025

TIME:  10:00 AM

LOCATION:  Dirksen Senate Office Building 538

THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing on the following nomination: Mr. Eric Scott Turner, to be Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

All hearings are webcast live and will not be available until the hearing starts. Individuals with disabilities who require an auxiliary aid or service, including closed captioning service for webcast hearings, should contact the committee clerk at 202-224-7391 at least three business days in advance of the hearing date.

https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/01/09/2025/nomination-hearing

Stop Scott Turner From Becoming The Next HUD Secretary:

Click on the link below to send an email to all the Democrat Members to voice your opposition to Scott Turner now! Tell them to oppose Scott Turner to be the next HUD Secretary!

https://www.banking.senate.gov/about/membership

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Trump’s HUD Secretary Pick Has a History of Fighting Housing Assistance

Texas state legislator Scott Turner opposed protections for poor tenants and called public assistance “destructive.”

By Jesse Coburn & Andy Kroll , PROPUBLICA

Published

December 23, 2024

https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-hud-secretary-pick-has-a-history-of-fighting-housing-assistance/

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https://x.com/truthout/status/1871268245334102036

Jan 7, 2025
(National Housing Law Project)
NHLP

@NHLP


HUD Sec. pick, Scott Turner, would make tenants’ lives harder by undermining
@HUDgov
’s power to fix the housing crisis. “We’re dealing with a pretty terrible housing crisis all across the country & HUD will be essential to any effort to solve it” said
@shamusroller
to
@propublica
Quote

Jesse Coburn

@Jesse_Coburn
·
Dec 23, 2024
Scott Turner voted to ensure landlords could refuse to rent to people on government assistance. He agreed with an interviewer who said welfare is worse than slavery. He may soon lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.


https://x.com/NHLP/status/1876679335173898273

Dec 23, 2024
New: As HUD secretary, Scott Turner would oversee billions in housing aid, but as a Texas state legislator he voted against protections for poor tenants and has called government assistance “one of the most destructive things for the family.”

https://x.com/propublica/status/1871149439500304620

December 23, 2024
Jesse Coburn

@Jesse_Coburn

Scott Turner voted to ensure landlords could refuse to rent to people on government assistance. He agreed with an interviewer who said welfare is worse than slavery. He may soon lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

w/
@AndyKroll

https://x.com/Jesse_Coburn/status/1871207840712688078

Dec. 23, 2024
Trump’s Pick to Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts to Aid the Poor

Click below...

https://www.propublica.org/article/scott-turner-hud-nominee-trump-public-housing-texas


Trump’s pick Scott Turner to run HUD may hate the poor

By Lynda Carson - Tuesday, Dec 24, 2024

Click below for the full story…

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/12/24/18871680.php


TRUMP PICKS SCOTT TURNER TO LEAD HUD

Turner has recently been focused on education policy, but worked on Opportunity Zones under the first Trump administration.

WHAT TO EXPECT DURING A SECOND TRUMP PRESIDENCY

Last week, Shelterforce spoke with Sarah Saadian of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), and David Dworkin of the National Housing Conference about what can be expected in Trump’s second term, and how Project 2025 could play into it.

Saadian says NLIHC is expecting to see a lot of the same harmful provisions from Trump’s first term in office, and worries Trump could follow through on his campaign promise to create sanctioned encampments for unhoused people. His presidential platform Agenda47 states that his presidency would “ban urban camping, offering violators the option to either receive treatment and rehabilitation or face arrest.” He also promised to premiere “tent cities” where “the homeless can be relocated and their problems identified” by doctors including psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists.

Other first-term policies Saadian is particularly worried about seeing return—and potentially intensify—include Trump’s abrupt repeal of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, failure to enforce HUD fair housing standards, threat to increase rents on HUD housing residents, and attacks on Housing First policies.

Click below…

https://shelterforce.org/2024/11/26/trump-picks-scott-turner-to-lead-hud/

January 10, 2025,
HUD secretary nominee Scott Turner to have Senate confirmation hearing next week

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/hud-secretary-nominee-scott-turner-to-have-senate-confirmation-hearing-next-week/

January 2, 2025,
Trump’s pick to lead HUD has opposed aid programs for the poor

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/scott-turner-donald-trump-hud-pick-opposed-aid-programs-for-the-poor/

Will the Next HUD Secretary Fight for the Unhoused?
David W. Marshall via TriceEdneyWire.com Jan 8, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Scott Turner to serve as the Secretary of HUD. As a lawmaker in the Texas House of Representatives, Turner opposed a bill to expand affordable rental housing. He voted against funding for a public-private partnership to support people experiencing homelessness. Turner, an associate Baptist pastor and former NFL player, was the first Black person nominated as a member of Donald Trump’s cabinet. Despite being a pastor, Turner’s voting record does not prove that the nominated HUD secretary will be a compassionate voice and advocate for the unhoused.

https://www.forwardtimes.com/editorial/op-ed/will-the-next-hud-secretary-fight-for-the-unhoused/article_abe729b2-cdf4-11ef-a5e7-df388d44bfb8.html

Trump’s HUD Secretary and Housing’s Reverse Robin Hood Effect (Oppose Scott Turner as HUD Secretary)

Our Low-Income Housing Programs Enrich the Already-Wealthy

FRAN QUIGLEY
JAN 10, 2025

https://housingisahumanright.substack.com/p/trumps-hud-secretary-and-housings

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