"She then pointed out the fact that HUD's homeless data report had yet to be turned in and was a year overdue at that point. That report, she noted, would reveal if the Trump administration's efforts to address housing were effective. The conversation continued: TURNER: What I will say, and I offer this, is number one: the point in time report and the Biden administration HUD said that we had 770,000 people in America that were homeless at one given time; and this is with record funding. So we have record funding, but yet we have an increase in street homelessness."
"GILLIBRAND: Right, so what is your record? You've had this job for well over a year! I just wanna know, did you get the number down? Do we have 700,000 homeless still? Or is it a million? Or 1.5 million? So I get you wanna do things differently, and this committee will support you as long as the goals are good, but where's the results? The report is delayed over a year over a year! So we have no TURNER: Can I offer this to you? GILLIBRAND: Yes, but we have I just don't wanna hear about what you don't like about the Biden administration. You're in charge. You have a vision. Let's see it. Let's see the results."
"TURNER: And you know, I thank God that I'm in charge so we can do stuff different, because the plays that were ran before I got here, they failed. I've been here let me speak, if you will you said I have been here a little bit over a year, but you all had, during the Biden administration, four years GILLIBRAND: Stop talking about Biden! TURN"
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee regarding the department’s 2027 budget request. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand criticized Turner’s repeated references to the Biden administration and said HUD’s homeless data report was overdue by more than a year. She argued the report would show whether recent housing efforts were effective. Turner cited a point-in-time figure of 770,000 people experiencing homelessness at one time, noting record funding but an increase in street homelessness. Gillibrand pressed for measurable outcomes, asking whether homelessness numbers had decreased and challenging Turner to present results rather than comparisons. Turner responded that prior approaches had failed and that he could implement different strategies.
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