President Trump nominated two Assistant Secretaries at HUD:

  • Ronald Kurtz to be Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, and
    • Kurtz previously served as the Director of Planning and Community Development for Grovetown, a city with a population of 17,580 people just outside of Augusta, Georgia.
      • He resigned in June 2024 to join the Trump campaign re-election team.
    • Kurtz grew up in metro Atlanta and earned both his master’s degree in public administration and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia in 2015.
    • Kurtz’s served as a Georgia delegate to the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
  • Benjamin Hobbs to be Assistant Secretary of Public and Indian Housing.
    • Hobbs returned to HUD in February 2025 as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Public and Indian Housing. He served as a Special and Senior Policy Advisor from June 2017 to July 2018.
    • During President Trump’s first administration, from July 2018 until January 2021, he served in the White House as the Policy Advisor for the Domestic Policy Council and as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
    • Hobbs also worked as a as a staff member for the Senate Special Committee on Aging and for the House Committee on Ways and Means.
    • He was a graduate fellow at the Heritage Foundation and earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Denison University and his master’s of science in philosophy and public policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

What’s Next: The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee will schedule nomination hearings.