Trump Picks Scott Turner, Little-Known Official From First Term, to Lead HUD

President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen Scott Turner, a little-known former pro football player and motivational speaker, to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, an agency that plays a central role in addressing the growing national affordability crisis. Mr. Turner, 52, served as a midlevel official in the first Trump White House, where he headed a council overseeing federal opportunity zones, a program that leverages tax and other economic incentives to build affordable housing and promote economic growth in impoverished areas. In that capacity, Mr. Turner helped “to...