President-elect Donald Trump announced late this week that he has selected Scott Turner to be the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
“Scott is an NFL Veteran, who, during my First Term, served as the First Executive Director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC), helping to lead an Unprecedented Effort that Transformed our Country’s most distressed communities,” Trump said in a statement.
“Those efforts, working together with former HUD Secretary, Ben Carson, were maximized by Scott’s guidance in overseeing 16 Federal Agencies which implemented more than 200 policy actions furthering Economic Development,” Trump continued. “Under Scott’s leadership, Opportunity Zones received over $50 Billion Dollars in Private Investment!”
Turner said that he was “thrilled to continue the outstanding work we began in your last administration at HUD with an incredible team.”
“I am deeply humbled by your confidence in my…