A former Texas legislator and NFL player, Turner has been tasked with overhauling the country's affordable housing system.

A filed Senate bill would impose ownership limits and fines to corporations that purchase single-family homes.

In response to the Providence Village case, the Texas Legislature in 2023 passed a law prohibiting HOAs from discriminating against tenants based on their method of payment. The law, pushed by Texas Rep. Chris Turner, a Grand Prairie Democrat, was considered a rare but big win for low-income Texans.

A homeowners association in Providence Village, Texas, a suburb in Dallas, is accused of racially targeting Black residents.

Texas officials discriminated against residents based on race and national origin in distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harvey aid in 2021, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development affirmed on Wednesday.

Picked to lead HUD, the former Texas House member tells senators there is a housing crisis. Democrats question whether any plans will succeed without more spending.

Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Eric Scott Turner said his main goal would be to tackle the housing shortage.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development accused the Providence Village HOA in Denton County of harassing Black and Hispanic residents who paid rent with government assistance.

AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded the city of Austin $6.7 million to help boost housing supply and lower housing costs.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said it happened within a HOA in the town of Providence Village. HUD said the HOA had rules designed to remove Black residents who paid with government subsidies,

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird joined Texas and 13 other GOP-led states to fight the federal government’s “radical energy efficiency standards."

Scott Turner, an official during the first Trump administration, said that the country was not building enough homes and that the housing department was “failing at its most basic mission.”