Former Texas state Rep. Scott Turner's nomination to lead HUD may offer a glimpse of what could be cut from San Antonio's housing ecosystem.
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Turner is a former professional football player who grew up in a Dallas suburb. He is an associate pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano and chair of the Center for Education Opportunity at the right-wing think tank America First Policy Institute. The institute was connected to Trump’s Nationwide, HUD houses more than 4.3 million low-income families through public housing, vouchers and other rental subsidies by funding thousands of local housing authorities like San Antonio’s Opportunity Home. The federal agency also oversees fair housing laws.
While the previous Congress blocked most of Carson’s proposals, others aren’t optimistic the new one will push back against an emboldened Trump administration. “Right now, we’re focused on the Texas Legislature, but we’ll also be focused on what we take to Washington,” he said. “This is not a time to dig into the weeds with local policy divisions, this is the time to speak as one voice. … We have bigger fish to fry here.”But state and local governments also have a role to play in housing affordability, Cisneros said, where “we have to rethink” everything from zoning to parking requirements to building codes.
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