Affordable Housing

HUD’s Got a New Man: It’s New York’s Donovan 

In an announcement that topped off a radio address given Saturday, President-elect Barack Obama nominated New York City’s commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development, Shaun Donovan, as the next secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Once the acting general deputy assistant secretary for housing, Donovan will take over for commissioner Brian Montgomery after the transition to the Obama Administration next year.