The Department of Housing and Urban Development introduced plans to relocate from its longtime headquarters positioned in the nation’s capital to Alexandria, Virginia.
Such a transfer had additionally been the topic of rumors since early in the second Trump administration, as its Department of Government Efficiency got down to goal examples of what it labeled as “waste, fraud and abuse.” Officials cited the age of the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, pointing to claims of assorted hazards, leaks and structural deficiencies discovered on the property as causes behind their resolution.
“For too lengthy, the Weaver constructing has struggled with ageing infrastructure and ongoing upkeep points that proceed to burden the American taxpayer,” stated Michael Peters, commissioner of the General Services Administration’s division overseeing its public properties.
The transfer would save U.S. taxpayers over $500 million in deferred upkeep, in addition to $56 million in annual working prices, GSA stated.
“HUD shall be the first main company headquarter relocation in the Trump administration’s effort to right-size our federal actual property portfolio,” Peters added.
Employees will transfer on a staggered schedule to its new location in Alexandria, Virginia, which presently homes places of work of the National Science Foundation. NSF, one other unbiased federal company, shall be displaced by the transfer.
HUD started working out of the Weaver constructing upon completion of development in 1968. The constructing is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
“Relocating is about extra than simply altering buildings; it is a couple of mission-minded shift that we hope will encourage each worker,” stated HUD Secretary Scott Turner in a press launch.
HUD’s present headquarters had been included on an inventory of federal properties focused by President Trump to doubtlessly vacate, with the places of work deemed “not core to authorities operations.” Also on the preliminary record revealed weeks after he took workplace had been the FBI’s head places of work and the constructing housing the Department of Justice.
Cost-cutting measures proposed by Elon Musk-led DOGE had beforehand led the authorities to terminate the leases of some HUD discipline places of work in addition to regional places of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Service.
