HUD

Last week, the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee held a nomination hearing for Andrew Hughes to be deputy secretary and David Woll to be general counsel at HUD.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner recognized April as Fair Housing Month, revealing this year’s theme: “Faith, Freedom, & Fair Housing.”

Secretary Scott Turner sent a letter to HUD grantees and stakeholders notifying them of HUD’s implementation of President Trump’s Executive Order, “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders.”

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing entitled Decades of Dysfunction: Restoring Accountability at HUD on April 8 with HUD Acting Inspector General Stephen Begg.

HUD launched a new website, which “features about a 90 percent reduction in content from the previous website.”

HUD published an updated Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Universal Notice, streamlining delivery of critical funding for communities impacted by natural disasters.

Secretary Scott Turner (HUD) and Secretary Kristi Noem (Department of Homeland Security) signed an interagency Memoranda of Understanding, “American Housing Programs for American Citizens,” to provide a full-time HUD staff member at the Incident Command Center (ICC).

President Trump’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of HUD, Andrew Hughes, is a Former Secretary Ben Carson loyalist.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum announced a Joint Task Force on Federal Land for Housing.

The Senate voted 56-43 to confirm Bill Pulte to serve as the next director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

Bloomberg News reports HUD is considering shutting down dozens of field offices, potentially leaving 34 states and DC without sites or staff to underwrite mortgages.

Congress faces a midnight deadline on Friday, March 14, to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open and fund programs through September 30.