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Turner Delivers Remarks on the LA Wildfires, Mar. 6, 2025

March 6, 2025 · HUDchannel · 0:14:58

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What happened

HUD published Secretary Scott Turner’s remarks in Los Angeles on the wildfire recovery under the title ‘HUD - @SecretaryTurner Delivers Remarks on LA Wildfires’; HUD published no description for the upload. In the remarks, a transcript of which was reviewed for this page, Turner said he had toured the Altadena area and met residents, pastors and local officials, and said red tape and bureaucracy had, in his word, ‘choked’ the recovery. He announced, as he stated it, a congressional investigation into FireAid, the $100 million fund raised for fire victims, saying Congress would examine where the money went.

Why it matters

Wildfire recovery in Los Angeles is HUD’s largest disaster-recovery test of Turner’s tenure, and the remarks put the Secretary on record in the affected community itself — blaming permitting and bureaucracy for the pace of rebuilding and promising federal scrutiny of the relief money.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard candidate: Turner’s March 6, 2025 announcement, as he stated it, of a congressional investigation into the FireAid fund — flagged for the weekly editor to check against the congressional record; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, ‘HUD - @SecretaryTurner Delivers Remarks on LA Wildfires,’ March 6, 2025 (official HUDchannel upload, embedded above). This page is grounded in the upload’s title, metadata and transcript; HUD published no description for this upload.