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HUD Secretary Turner and Chairman Scott Discuss Housing Priorities and the ROAD to Housing Act

September 9, 2025 · U.S. Senate Banking Committee GOP · 0:24:04

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What happened

HUD Secretary Scott Turner opened an Innovative Housing Showcase panel alongside Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, thanking exhibitors and sponsors and saying the manufactured housing, modular housing, log cabins, and other exhibits on display are not just concepts or ideas but real solutions to the country’s affordable housing issue, according to Turner.

Scott described growing up in poverty in a single-parent household — his mother a first-time homeowner at 38 in 1982 — and said the struggle persisting 43 years later shows the need for innovative solutions, creative opportunities, and pressure on local jurisdictions to increase capacity by changing zoning, so the average American believes the American dream reaches their zip code, according to Scott.

On the ROAD to Housing Act, Scott described a carrot-and-stick approach — praise and encouragement in government, he said, is called money: jurisdictions that increase housing supply locally become eligible for more CDBG resources, and those that do not meet thresholds lose money, according to Scott. He said the idea came from legislation Senators Elizabeth Warren and John Kennedy worked on together and was embedded in the bill, and that solving housing requires engaging every layer of government plus the private sector, according to the panel.

Why it matters

The panel pairs HUD’s showcase of manufactured and modular building with the Senate’s bipartisan housing bill as its authors describe it — federal money used as the incentive for local zoning and supply decisions.

Sources: U.S. Senate Banking Committee GOP, “Chairman Scott Joins HUD Secretary Turner to Discuss Housing Priorities, ROAD to Housing Act”, 2025-09-09 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-09-09). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.