The U.S. Division of Housing and City Growth says its present employees use solely half the accessible workplace house and that relocating will “scale back the burden on the American taxpayer.”
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Division of Housing and City Growth is in search of a smaller, cheaper constructing for its headquarters. It is half of a bigger Trump administration push to shrink not solely the variety of federal staff, but additionally the office spaces the place they work.
In asserting the plan, the company stated its 1968 constructing in Washington, D.C., presently faces over $500 million in deferred “upkeep and modernization.” It stated present employees occupy solely half the house and that relocating will “scale back the burden on the American taxpayer.”
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HUD Secretary Scott Turner has additionally referred to as the large, curved Brutalist construction “the ugliest building in D.C.“
“HUD’s focus is on making a office that displays the values of effectivity, accountability, and function,” Turner stated in an announcement. “We’re dedicated to rightsizing authorities operations … to ship outcomes for the American folks.”
The company didn’t say how a lot it is asking for the constructing.
DOGE, the cost-cutting staff overseen by billionaire Elon Musk, has focused reducing HUD employees by half, in line with an inner doc seen by NPR.
HUD headquarters, formally referred to as the Robert C. Weaver Federal Constructing, is now up on the market, though that might be sophisticated by its itemizing within the National Register of Historic Places. The company stated a timeline and ultimate location usually are not but set, however that “the Washington, D.C. metropolitan space stays a high precedence.”
HUD headquarters is close to a busy metro cease in downtown D.C. However this week, President Trump gave federal businesses more flexibility to locate outdoors of metropolis facilities. He revoked two earlier orders, by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Invoice Clinton, that had inspired businesses to find in enterprise districts and historic properties.
Trump’s order stated these previous measures “prevented businesses from relocating to lower-cost services,” and that businesses “should be the place the persons are.”
