HUD announced significant changes to its headquarters location and staffing.
- In coordination with the General Services Administration (GSA), HUD added its current headquarters to the accelerated property disposition list, although no building has been named as its new headquarters.
- This move follows an executive order signed by President Trump, which grants federal agencies greater flexibility to move away from business districts and historic properties, overturning previous orders signed by Presidents Carter and Clinton, respectively.
With a leaner staff to relocate, Secretary Turner shared that approximately 2,300 employees—around a quarter of the agency’s workforce—have left the agency since January.
- The second round of “fork in the road” voluntary separation offers closed on Friday, April 11.
- 101 Democrats in Congress signed a letter to Secretary Turner regarding the unlawful mass termination of probationary federal employees; the illegal closing of HUD Field Offices; HUD’s announcement that employees at GS-13 and below in the Office of Field Policy and Management would be terminated; and reports that HUD planned to cut its agency-wide workforce by at least half.
In a related move, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness placed all its staff members on administrative leave, in compliance with an executive order issued on March 14, aimed at further downsizing the federal bureaucracy.
