ICYMI | HUD Secretary Turner on Homelessness Funding Reforms: “What I want for the American people is to be able to live in dignity and to have a self-sustainable life.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner sat down with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria” in his first interview on HUD’s long-overdue policy reforms to its Continuum of Care (CoC) program.
Under Secretary Turner’s leadership, HUD announced historic changes in the way it serves homeless Americans. The Department is shifting funding from the failed ‘Housing First’ model toward transitional housing providers with a focus on wraparound services to address the root causes of homelessness and promote independence and self-sufficiency.
WATCH: HUD Secretary Turner on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business
On Terminating the Biden-Era Slush Fund: “Under the Biden administration, about 12 billion dollars was spent on Continuum of Care…yet homelessness went up almost 33% over the last several years. What we’ve done is take this Biden-era slush fund, called the Continuum of Care, and turned it into not just housing, but also treatment and transitional housing.”
On Promoting Recovery and Self-Sufficiency: “What is the root cause of homelessness? Mental illness, drug addiction, drug abuse. During the Biden administration, it was just warehousing. It was a homeless industrial complex—a slush fund for nonprofits around the country…We want to award (providers) for not only housing (the homeless), but treating them, transforming them, and getting them back to a life of self-sufficiency.”
On Restoring Dignity to Vulnerable Americans: “Under President Trump’s leadership, we actually care about the American people. We don’t want more people [to be] homeless, more people on the streets, more people dying of drug addictions. We want people to live in dignity.”
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