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Housing and City Improvement Secretary Scott Turner shared a video Monday afternoon on social media exhibiting falling roof tiles on the HUD company’s D.C. headquarters amid the company’s efforts to relocate its headquarters below the Trump administration.
The video of the broken constructing comes after Turner introduced final month that HUD can be relocating its headquarters down the street to Alexandria, Virginia.
Turner beforehand cited the truth that the D.C. constructing is dealing with over $500 million in “deferred upkeep” prices, whereas solely half of HUD’s D.C. headquarters is at the moment getting used. He has additionally argued the constructing just isn’t secure, which he additional illustrated in a Monday put up on X.
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“The present HUD HQ is falling aside in every single place you flip. I witnessed this firsthand as we speak,” Turner captioned his video posted to X Monday afternoon. “It’s not appropriate for HUD employees or the individuals we serve. Shifting day can’t come quickly sufficient.”
The Robert C. Weaver Federal Constructing, residence to the Division of Housing and City Improvement (HUD) in Washington, D.C., is affected by crumbling infrastructure and over $500 million in deferred upkeep, in response to Secretary Scott Turner. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Photos)
Turner confirmed “broken roof tiles,” which he described as water-logged and “leaking.” The video confirmed a gaping gap within the roof of the HUD headquarters, with a trash heap beneath it stuffed with what gave the impression to be damaged roof tiles from the within of the constructing that fell.
“Did this fall on anybody?” Turner requested within the video, after which somebody behind the digital camera confirms it didn’t. “Nicely,” Turner replied. “It will not be lengthy. It will not be lengthy.”
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The HUD constructing will relocate from the Robert C. Weaver Federal Constructing to 2415 Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, the place the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is housed, however no indication has been made about when that transfer shall be finalized. The transfer marks the primary main government company below Trump to relocate its headquarters.
The relocation effort shall be a staggered course of that may finally relocate roughly 2,700 HUD staff at the moment based mostly on the D.C. headquarters constructing, in response to the Basic Companies Administration (GSA).
HUD is getting ready to maneuver into the previous Nationwide Science Basis constructing in Alexandria, Virginia — a relocation that Sec. Scott Turner says will save taxpayers thousands and thousands and supply a safer office for employees. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
Along with saving on deferred upkeep prices, the relocation will even save taxpayers roughly $56 million in annual lease and operations expenditures, in response to HUD.
“That is concerning the HUD staff to have a secure area, to have a pleasant place to work, to signify the those who we serve in America,” Turner mentioned throughout a press convention formally asserting the relocation final month. “This isn’t concerning the secretary. That is concerning the posterity and the way forward for HUD.”
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NSF employees met this week to debate how they’ll deal with the HUD relocation, together with a possible relocation themselves, native reporting out of Alexandria indicated.
