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Turner Delivers Opening Statement to House Financial Services, Jan. 21, 2026

January 21, 2026 · HUDchannel · 0:04:52

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What happened

HUD published Secretary Scott Turner’s opening statement at the House Financial Services Committee under the title ‘Secretary Turner’s Opening Statement at the House Financial Services Committee’; HUD published no description for the upload, which carries only the opening statement, not the full hearing. In the statement, a transcript of which was reviewed for this page, Turner said he came to update the committee on the HUD team’s work over the first year of the administration, thanked the committee’s leadership for its partnership, and said housing affordability is, as he put it, a defining issue.

Why it matters

The Financial Services Committee is HUD’s authorizing committee in the House; the Secretary’s opening statement is his on-record account of the department’s first year and his affordability case to the committee that writes its housing law.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: Turner’s January 21, 2026 Financial Services opening statement — the housing-supply and affordability figures stated in testimony are flagged for the weekly editor to check against the department’s record; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, ‘Secretary Turner’s Opening Statement at the House Financial Services Committee,’ January 21, 2026 (official HUDchannel upload, embedded above). This page is grounded in the upload’s title, metadata and transcript; HUD published no description for this upload.