President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he would nominate Scott Turner, a White House aide during his first term, to become secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Turner was executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council in Trump’s first term, a role in which he worked with distressed communities. Trump noted that Turner worked at the time with then-HUD Secretary Ben Carson and was involved in “overseeing 16 Federal Agencies which implemented more than 200 policy actions furthering Economic Development.”
Turner, a veteran of the NFL, graduated from the University of Illinois. He is the CEO of the Community Engagement and Opportunity Council, a family foundation that works to revitalize communities.
