President-elect Donald Trump has named former NFL player Scott Turner as his pick to lead the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
“Scott is an NFL Veteran, who, during my First Term, served as the First Executive Director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC), helping to lead an Unprecedented Effort that Transformed our Country’s most distressed communities,” Trump said in his announcement.
If confirmed by the Senate, Turner, 52, would lead the agency tasked with enforcing housing laws, managing programs to address housing needs, administering rental subsidies to lower-income families and handling housing discrimination cases.