Trump picks NFL veteran Scott Turner to lead HUD

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President-elect Donald Trump is tapping Scott Turner, a former NFL participant and veteran of his first time period to steer the Division of Housing and City Improvement.

Turner served as govt director of the White Home Alternative and Revitalization Council beforehand. The president-elect in a press release praised Turner’s work in that submit, saying he helped “lead an Unprecedented Effort that Reworked our Nation’s most distressed communities.”

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Turner is the primary Black American picked for a Cupboard submit in Trump’s second administration. 

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Turner would head a division answerable for coordinating nationwide coverage addressing the nation’s housing wants, together with packages to bolster reasonably priced housing, present help to low-income People, forestall discrimination available in the market and spur city growth.

A former cornerback, Turner performed within the NFL for 9 seasons with Washington, San Diego and Denver. He went on to serve within the Texas Home of Representatives.

Trump sparked a firestorm along with his first time period choose for the company, famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson, with critics noting that he had no prior expertise or connection to federal housing coverage. Carson stays one among Trump’s most staunch defenders, serving to the president-elect amplify his outreach to Black voters over the last marketing campaign.

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Beneath Carson, HUD used so-called Alternative Zones, which supplied incentives to attract investments to economically distressed communities. That effort drew opposition from those that mentioned that the breaks predominantly ended up benefiting rich builders. Beneath Trump and Carson, the company additionally finalized a rule which civil rights teams mentioned undercut efforts to forestall housing discrimination.

Throughout his marketing campaign, Trump usually assailed Democratic-run cities, casting them as beset by crime and homelessness. Trump has vowed to “ban city tenting” and create “tent cities” on “cheap land” and usher in docs and social staff.