How the Trump administration is using housing policy to enforce traditional family values

Summary

This article examines how the Trump administration's HUD, under Secretary Scott Turner, is pushing a traditionalist, Christian-nationalist agenda into American housing policy. It traces the historical roots of moralistic housing policy from the New Deal era through the present, showing how figures like Turner and policy shifts under Project 2025 are weaponizing housing programs to enforce conservative family values—privileging married couples, penalizing single mothers, and using housing as a tool for social engineering. The piece argues this represents a dangerous fusion of religious ideology with federal housing authority.

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