← Chronicle · Confirmation · February 5, 2025

Scott Turner Confirmed as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 55–45

Senate vote: 55–45

Scott Turner was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on February 5, 2025, by a vote of 55–45. He became the 19th Secretary of HUD.

The mission that started here is the housing portfolio this chronicle tracks: expanding housing supply through deregulation and Opportunity Zones, citizens-only HUD housing, and — as his tenure developed — the termination of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing framework and the end of the Housing First model, the signature turns banked in this site’s research record.

Sources: Senate confirmation record, February 5, 2025 (vote and date banked in this site’s research cluster B); Department of Housing and Urban Development.