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DSNews: Industry Reacts to New HUD Secretary

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Industry Reacts to New HUD Secretary

After months of waiting, on Thursday Ben Carson was confirmed and sworn in as HUD Secretary, with a final Senate vote of 58-41. “I am immensely grateful and deeply humbled to take on such an important role in service to the American people,” said Secretary Carson.

Carson wasn't the only figure making a statement upon this news, the industry was swift to voice their opinion on this next chapter for the housing agency as well.

The M Report: Carson Sworn In, Industry Reacts

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Carson Sworn In, Industry Reacts

After months of waiting, on Thursday Ben Carson was confirmed and sworn in as HUD Secretary, with a final Senate vote of 58-41. “I am immensely grateful and deeply humbled to take on such an important role in service to the American people,” said Secretary Carson.

Carson wasn't the only figure making a statement upon this news, the industry was swift to voice their opinion on this next chapter for the housing agency as well.

Los Angeles Times: The luxury housing that Measure S would stop doesn’t actually require many evictions

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The luxury housing that Measure S would stop doesn’t actually require many evictions

Andrew Khouri & Ben Poston

Eve Hars undergoing chemotherapy for Stage 3 breast cancer, was facing eviction.

A developer had purchased her rent-controlled Echo Park bungalow to level it and build new housing.

Hars recounted her story in a recent campaign ad paid for by supporters of Measure S, the March 7 ballot measure that would put a two-year moratorium on developments that need certain exemptions from city planning rules.

The Orange County Register: Jonathan Lansner has a few housing suggestions for Ben Carson

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By Jonathan Lansner

What can Dr. Ben Carson do for housing?

President-elect Donald Trump nominated the retired neurosurgeon – a former political rival turned Trump supporter – to be the next head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

HUD does everything from overseeing housing discrimination laws to offering housing assistance to low-income households to funding housing construction to being a significant player in the mortgage-making game. It’s effect is nationwide but is extra noteworthy in high-cost regions like Southern California.

Los Angeles Times: One solution to Southern California's housing crisis: building in tight spaces, small lots

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By Andrew Khouri

In Santa Ana, not long ago, on a tired commercial stretch west of downtown, stood a church, a burnt-out motel and something harder to see: one key to alleviating the region’s housing crisis.

It’s on this now-graded site near the corner of 1st and Bristol streets where Olson Co. is constructing 62 residences expected to start in the low $400,000s.

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