Scott Turner, former Trump White House official, tapped for HUD secretary
Posted on 11/23/2024
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Scott Turner to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a crucial role amid a national housing crisis and widespread affordability problems.
Turner, a former professional football player, served in Trump’s first administration as executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, a group of White House advisers tasked with magnifying impacts of opportunity zones, an economic tool for investing in distressed areas. In an announcement on Truth Social on Friday night, Trump said that under Turner’s leadership, opportunity zones received over $50 billion in private investment. Turner also served in the Texas state legislature.
Turner, a former professional football player, served in Trump’s first administration as executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, a group of White House advisers tasked with magnifying impacts of opportunity zones, an economic tool for investing in distressed areas. In an announcement on Truth Social on Friday night, Trump said that under Turner’s leadership, opportunity zones received over $50 billion in private investment. Turner also served in the Texas state legislature.
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