ICYMI | Secretary Scott Turner on The Charlie Kirk Show | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

WASHINGTON – Secretary Scott Turner joined Charlie Kirk, host of The Charlie Kirk Show, to discuss eliminating woke gender ideology from HUD-funded facilities, saving millions of taxpayer dollars by auditing HUD contracts, and rescinding the Obama-Biden Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule.

Equal Access

“There are two sexes—male and female. When you have HUD-funded shelters, for instance, when you have a shelter that is for women, we want to make sure that the leaders of those shelters can properly identify the people coming into those shelters. Men should not be entering a women-only shelter,” Secretary Turner said.

Background: Secretary Turner directed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to halt any pending or future enforcement actions related to HUD’s 2016 rule entitled “Equal Access in Accordance With an Individual’s Gender Identity in Community Planning and Development Programs.” This rule forced housing programs, shelters, and other facilities funded by HUD to recognize “gender identity” ideology. In effect, it allowed individuals to self-identify their gender without regard to their biological sex and limited the rights and abilities of HUD-funded establishments from challenging an individual’s self-identification

Saving Taxpayer Dollars 

“With President Trump’s leadership and finding all the waste, fraud, and abuse and streamlining our processes, I’m happy to announce we have found $260 million dollars in savings already. We assume we will find more, so that we are good stewards of taxpayer dollars,” Secretary Turner said

Background: In accordance with President Trump’s Day One Executive Order establishing the Department of Government Efficiency, Secretary Turner is reviewing all contracts at HUD to maximize government efficiency, increase productivity, and root out waste, fraud, and abuse.

AFFH

“We are going after AFFH to restore the power, the flexibility, the rule-making authority back to localities, back to states because they understand their needs, they understand the needs they have in their local neighborhoods. The federal government should not be heavy handed mandating how people zone, or how people build in different localities,” Secretary Turner said.

Background: The Obama-Biden Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule encroaches on the ability of local leaders to respond to community needs by adding cumbersome and costly regulations.