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God, we ask You to guide and protect Secretary Scott Turner as he works to reform his department and help Americans. Let him hear Your voice and seek Your will in all he does.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development reportedly suffered under President Biden. Secretary Scott Turner is working overtime to reform it and help American citizens.

From Breitbart. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner is ā€œserious about making housing affordableā€ for all Americans — and his mission started with reorienting a department that lost its way under President Joe Biden.

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ā€œThe President from Day One said, ā€˜we want to make housing affordable again,’ā€ Turner told Breitbart NewsĀ in a lengthy interview from his office at HUD’s Washington headquarters Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s one hundredth day in office.

Turner described his work transforming the agency into an organization that put Americans first — one that provides Americans a path off government assistance and towards self-sustainability — and explained HUD’s significant if under-appreciated role in President Donald Trump’s America First agenda. …

Biden’s administration had dumped resources into the agency but grossly mismanaged them, as the administration’s own numbers show. ā€œHUD, in spite of having record funding, we saw homelessness go up 18% in our country — over 770,000 people homeless on one single night in January of 2024,ā€ Turner told Breitbart News.

To begin the transformation, Turner determined what he had to work with.

ā€œWhen we came in, we said we’re going to take inventory of every program at HUD and make sure that we’re being good stewards of American taxpayer dollars,ā€ he said.

Essential to that stewardship is a mindset that the programs HUD offers Americans should not be available in perpetuity.

ā€œWe’re community development with a very unique mission, and part of the mission that we have is to not grow government subsidies, the amount of people on government subsidies,ā€ Turner said. ā€œWe want to get people off of government subsidies.ā€

HUD plays a major role across the federal government to provide housing to struggling Americans but also to reduce homelessness, particularly for the nation’s veterans. …

ā€œWhen you talk about homelessness, the government is not the solution to housing. It’s not the solution to homelessness. It’s a great convener, a great facilitator,ā€ he said. ā€œPublic-funded housing, it was never meant to be a permanent solution.ā€

PresidentĀ Lyndon Johnson created HUD as part of his Great Society programs to eliminate poverty, but the agency has too often been wielded counterproductively.Ā Turner said that too often since LBJ’s creation and expansion of welfare programs, ā€œperverse incentives have crippled our nation, including being on public housing for 20, 30 years.ā€

ā€œWe understand that there’s going to have to be times people need vouchers, they need assistance, but our goal is for people not to be in public housing forever and use it as a hammock or a resting place, but to use public housing as really a trampoline, as a trajectory, to live sustainable lives.ā€

The influx of migrants under President Biden was an undeniable driver of the decrease in availability of affordable housing. …

The increased demand for housing and resulting painful increase in housing costs affects all Americans, and HUD is working across the Trump administration to alleviate the crisis. …

Under the Biden administration, HUD had no measures to ensure it provided housing to American citizens. Turner is installing those safeguards, working with Secretary Kristi Noem to sign a data-sharing memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Department of Homeland Security. …

Turner has also worked to ensure Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans only go to American citizens, not illegal aliens, by removing the ā€œpermanent resident categoryā€ from loan offerings. …

Disaster relief through its Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery program is another critical HUD function — and another area where the Biden administration dropped the ball.

The Biden administration’s bungled recovery efforts after storms in the Southeast became an issue in the 2024 election, and horrific wildfires in California hit just days before Trump was sworn in. California’s own leadership was often in the way of dealing with those fires and subsequent recovery efforts. …

In addition to facilitating federal assistance, Turner told California’s Democrat leaders that their people ā€œwant to rebuild, but it’s very difficult for them to do so. And so I encouraged the leaders to look at your regulations, look at the bureaucracy, and tear it down to help families to rebuild.ā€

Turner and Trump traveled to hurricane-ravagedĀ Asheville, North Carolina as well.

ā€œFire devastation is one thing, but when you see water devastation, it’s another thing, especially in the mountains of North Carolina where entire properties were lost, property lines shifted, rivers gone,ā€ he said. ā€œBut the same problem there is regulations.ā€ …

Under Turner, HUD stepped up.

ā€œWe allocated an additional $2.5 million there in those areas that were impacted by hurricanes,ā€ he said. ā€œWe also did an additional 90-day extension on FHA, on the moratoriums, to make sure families were not foreclosed on, to give them more time, to give them more flexibility, to give them more leeway, so that they can plan and strategize.ā€

Turner said one of the most serious but ultimately rewarding responsibilities of being a secretary is that ā€œyou get to meet people right where they are, and help them and support them in a time of need.ā€ That shared mindset across the Trump cabinet is key to the administration’s 100-day success. …

Share your prayers for Secretary Turner and his department below.

(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Scott Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=160959013)

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Jen
May 5, 2025

Lord God we praise you for Secretary Turner. Bless him with wisdom and discernment from on high to do his job in such a way that brings you honor and glory. Continue to guide him and those working with him to find and cut out all bureaucracy and fat so that truly needy American citizens get the help up they need for housing for themselves and their families. Please guide him Lord to clear up and bring real solutions to our homeless crisis. He can’t do it alone so send the help needed to end homelessness in America. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

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VanStephony
May 4, 2025

Yes, Father bless and guide Secretary Turner and his team to truly help the.needy with a hand up rather than harmful permanent incentives to keep the needy down. And to trim HUD to a cost-effective departmental “lean muscle mass.”

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Lulee
May 4, 2025

Abba, we lift up Secretary Turner and HUD before your throne of mercy and grace. What a tangled web has been weaved in this agency and all throughout our government. When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. We ask for Secretary Turner to flourish. Bless him. Pour out your spirit upon him and all those working to restore this agency–the spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel and might and the knowledge and fear of you. Give each one divine insights into where to break down walls and where to build them up. Tear down wicked webs of deceit and unwise policies. May this agency shine brightly reflecting your glory. Shine your light on fraudulent activities and stop them dead in their tracks. Remove land mines or distractions set by the enemy so this monumental task may be accomplished according to your will. Send your mighty angels to assist in this endeavor. Release your glory over HUD. We also pray for the people who rely on HUD. Be gracious and merciful to them. I don’t even know how to pray for this, Abba, but we ask you, Jesus, to intercede on our and their behalf. Order what is right and pure for HUD, and blow away all evil schemes of the enemy. Thank you as always for hearing and answering our prayers more than we could ever think or imagine. Where would we be without you and your leading? We worship and adore you. Bring glory to your name. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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Darlene Estlow
May 4, 2025

Father, I do pray Secretary Turner. May he sell you for wisdom and be able to turn the tide to helping people to find housing. Give him understanding and favor. Confused those who are working against him and may he succeed. I pray for those that hate Trump. Turn them from hatred to seek the truth. I praise your name for what you are doing in our country. Maybe are coming to you. Bless then and may they be discipled so they may live fruitful lives to your glory.

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