A former Texas legislator and NFL player, Turner has been tasked with overhauling the country's affordable housing system.
A filed Senate bill would impose ownership limits and fines to corporations that purchase single-family homes.
In response to the Providence Village case, the Texas Legislature in 2023 passed a law prohibiting HOAs from discriminating against tenants based on their method of payment. The law, pushed by Texas Rep. Chris Turner, a Grand Prairie Democrat, was considered a rare but big win for low-income Texans.
Texas officials discriminated against residents based on race and national origin in distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harvey aid in 2021, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development affirmed on Wednesday.
Picked to lead HUD, the former Texas House member tells senators there is a housing crisis. Democrats question whether any plans will succeed without more spending.
A homeowners association in Providence Village, Texas, a suburb in Dallas, is accused of racially targeting Black residents.
Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Eric Scott Turner said his main goal would be to tackle the housing shortage.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird joined Texas and 13 other GOP-led states to fight the federal government’s “radical energy efficiency standards."
AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded the city of Austin $6.7 million to help boost housing supply and lower housing costs.
Zoning laws, occupancy limits, and short-term rental restrictions are keeping housing off the market and driving up costs.
After losing out on millions of Hurricane Harvey federal disaster dollars due to its own mismanagement, the City of Houston is now trying to save what it can of the allotment.
Scott Turner, an official during the first Trump administration, said that the country was not building enough homes and that the housing department was “failing at its most basic mission.”