Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing

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| first = Philip N. Brownstein

| salary = Level IV of the Executive Schedule

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The assistant secretary for housing, who also carries the title Federal Housing Commissioner, is a position within the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The assistant secretary is responsible for overseeing the $1.5+ trillion Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance portfolio and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's regulatory responsibilities in the area of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the housing mission of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the manufactured housing industry.

Role

The federal housing commissioner is appointed by the president and confirmed by the United States Senate.{{cite web | title=US CODE: Title 42,3533. Officers of Department | url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/3533- | accessdate= September 27, 2007}} The assistant secretary is third in the order of succession for the office of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.{{cite web | title=Executive Order on Succession at the Department of Housing and Urban Development | url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011229-6.html | accessdate= September 27, 2007 }} The assistant secretary is paid at level IV of the Executive Schedule,{{cite web | title=US CODE: Title 5,5315. Positions at level IV | url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/05/5315- | accessdate= September 27, 2007 }} receiving a basic annual salary of up to $200,000 depending on certain factors.{{cite web | title=Salary Table 2006-EX | url=http://www.opm.gov/oca/06tables/html/ex.asp | accessdate=September 27, 2007 | archive-date=August 7, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807095550/http://www.opm.gov/oca/06tables/html/ex.asp | url-status=dead }} The position was most recently held by Julia Gordon and is currently vacant.

Assistant secretaries of housing and urban development for housing

At the founding of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1965, one assistant secretary role was specifically designated to perform the functions of the existing role of Federal Housing Commissioner.{{cite book |last1=U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |title=Secretary's Reference Book |date=November 1969 |publisher=U.S. Federal Government |page=8 |url=https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Secretarys-Reference-Book.pdf}} HUD Secretary George W. Romney split the role between two new titles, Assistant Secretary for Housing Production and Mortgage Credit (HPMC, for the production side of Sections 235 and 236 and public housing), combining the GHA commissioner role, and a separate Assistant Secretary for Housing Management (HM).{{cite web |title=HUD at 50: Creating Pathways to Opportunity {{!}} HUD USER |url=https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/reports/HUD-at-50.html |website=www.huduser.gov |access-date=11 July 2021}} Finally, on June 16, 1976, HUD Secretary Carla Hills merged the two roles into one single Assistant Secretary for Housing & Federal Housing Commissioner role,{{cite book |last1=Comptroller General of the United States |title=Report to the Congress of the United States |date=March 31, 1976 |publisher=U.S. Federal Government |page=87 |url=https://www.gao.gov/assets/ced-78-63.pdf}} which remains the title today.

Federal Housing Commissioner

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!Name

!Term began

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!President(s)

|James A. Moffett{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Housing_a_Nation/iOU8AAAAMAAJ |title=Housing a Nation |date=1966 |publisher=Congressional Quarterly, Incorporated |language=en}}

|1934

|1935

|Stewart McDonald

|1935

|1940

|Abner H. Ferguson

|1940

|1945

|Raymond M. Foley{{Cite web |title=Foley, Raymond M. Papers {{!}} Harry S. Truman |url=https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/personal-papers/raymond-m-foley-papers |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=www.trumanlibrary.gov}}

|1945

|1947

|Harry S. Truman

|Franklin D. Richards{{Cite web |title=Statement by the President on the New Housing and Home Finance Agency {{!}} Harry S. Truman |url=https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/173/statement-president-new-housing-and-home-finance-agency |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=www.trumanlibrary.gov}}

|1947

|1952

|Harry S. Truman

|Walter L. Greene

|1952

|1953

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|Guy T. O. Hollyday

|1953

|1954

|Norman P. Mason

|1954

|1959

|Dwight D. Eisenhower

|Julian H. Zimmerman

|1959

|1960

|Norman P. Mason (acting)

|1960

|1961

|Neal J. Hardy

|1961

|1963

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|Phillip N. Brownstein

|1963

|1969^†

Assistant Secretary – Federal Housing Commissioner

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|Philip N. Brownstein{{cite web |title=Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb · Discover Production |url=https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/oh-brownsteinp-19681122-1-74-6 |website=www.discoverlbj.org |access-date=11 July 2021}}

|{{dts|1963}}^†

|{{dts|1969}}

|Lyndon B. Johnson

|Eugene M. Gulledge{{cite book |last1=United States Congress Senate Committee on Banking and Currency |title=Nomination of Eugene A. Gulledge, Hearing Before ..., 91-1 ..., September 25, 1969 |date=1969 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oWtryFXUHqwC&dq=Eugene+M.+Gulledge+federal+housing&pg=PA1 |language=en}}

|{{dts|1969}}

|Richard M. Nixon

^†Incumbent FHA Commissioner at founding of Department of Housing and Urban Development

Assistant Secretary of Housing Production and Mortgage Credit – Federal Housing Commissioner

Image ! Name ! Term began ! Term ended ! President(s) served under
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\|Eugene M. Gulledge \|{{dts\|1969\|10}} \|{{dts\|1973\|01}} \|rowspan=3 \|Richard M. Nixon
style='background: #e6e6aa' \| \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|Woodward Kingman (acting) \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|{{dts\|1973\|01}} \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|{{dts\|1973\|06}}
rowspan=2 \| \|rowspan=2 \|Sheldon B. Lubar \|rowspan=2 \|{{dts\|1973\|07}} \|rowspan=2 \|{{dts\|1974\|11}}
rowspan=3 \|Gerald R. Ford
style='background: #e6e6aa' \| \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|David M. DeWilde (acting) \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|{{dts\|1974\|11}} \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|{{dts\|1975\|08}}
\|David S. Cook \|{{dts\|1975\|08}} \|{{dts\|1976\|06\|14}}{{cite web \|title=White House Notice to the Press June 10, 1976 \|url=https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0248/whpr19760610-008.pdf}}

Assistant Secretary of Housing Management

Image ! Name ! Term began ! Term ended ! President(s) served under
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\|Lawrence M. Cox \|{{dts\|1969\|03}} \|{{dts\|1970\|07}} \|rowspan=4 \|Richard M. Nixon
\|Norman V. Watson \|{{dts\|1970\|07}} \|{{dts\|1973\|01}}
style='background: #e6e6aa' \| \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|Abner Silverman (acting) \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|{{dts\|1973\|01}} \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|{{dts\|1973\|03}}
rowspan=2 \|60px \|rowspan=2 \|H.R. Crawford \|rowspan=2 \|{{dts\|1973\|04}} \|rowspan=2 \|{{dts\|1976\|01}}
rowspan=3 \|Gerald R. Ford
style='background: #e6e6aa' \|60px \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|Robert C. Odle, Jr. (acting) \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|{{dts\|1976\|01}} \|style='background: #e6e6aa' \|{{dts\|1976\|03}}
\|James L. Young \|{{dts\|1976\|03}} \|{{dts\|1976\|06\|14}}

Assistant Secretary of Housing – Federal Housing Commissioner

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|James L. Young

|{{dts|1976|06|14}}

|{{dts|1976|12}}

|rowspan=2 |Gerald R. Ford

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|rowspan=2 style='background: #e6e6aa' |John T. Howley (acting)

|rowspan=2 style='background: #e6e6aa' |{{dts|1976|12}}

|rowspan=2 style='background: #e6e6aa' |{{dts|1977|03}}

rowspan=2| Jimmy Carter

|Lawrence B. Simons

|{{dts|1977|03}}{{cite web |title=In Memoriam: Lawrence B. Simons |url=https://www.housingonline.com/2012/01/05/in-memoriam-lawrence-b-simons/ |website=NH&RA |access-date=11 July 2021 |date=5 January 2012}}

|{{dts|1980}}

|Philip D. Winn{{cite web |title=PN136 - Nomination of Philip D. Winn for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 97th Congress (1981-1982) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/97th-congress/136 |website=www.congress.gov |date=2 April 1981}}

|{{dts|1981}}

|{{dts|1982}}

| rowspan="4" |Ronald Reagan

|Philip Abrams{{cite web |title=PN1260 - Nomination of Philip Abrams for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 97th Congress (1981-1982) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/97th-congress/1260 |website=www.congress.gov |date=29 September 1982}}

|{{dts|1982}}

|{{dts|1983}}

|Maurice Lee Barksdale{{cite web |title=PN600 - Nomination of Maurice Lee Barksdale for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 98th Congress (1983-1984) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/98th-congress/600 |website=www.congress.gov |date=22 November 1983}}

|{{dts|1983}}

|{{dts|1985}}

|Thomas Demery{{cite web |title=PN1316 - Nomination of Thomas T. Demery for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 99th Congress (1985-1986) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/99th-congress/1316 |website=www.congress.gov |date=18 October 1986}}

|{{dts|1986}}

|{{dts|1989}}

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|Catherine Austin Fitts{{cite web |title=PN387 - Nomination of C. Austin Fitts for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 101st Congress (1989-1990) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/101st-congress/387 |website=www.congress.gov |date=2 August 1989}}

|{{dts|1989}}

|{{dts|1990}}

| rowspan="2" |George H. W. Bush

| Arthur J. Hill{{cite web |last1=Saxon |first1=Wolfgang |title=Arthur Hill, Finance Executive And Ex-Ginnie Mae Chief, 46 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/13/obituaries/arthur-hill-finance-executive-and-ex-ginnie-mae-chief-46.html |website=The New York Times |date=13 May 1995}}

| {{dts|1991|04}}

| {{dts|1993}}

| Nicolas P. Retsinas{{cite web |title=PN236 - Nomination of Nicolas P. Retsinas for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 103rd Congress (1993-1994) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/103rd-congress/236 |website=www.congress.gov |date=11 May 1993}}

| {{dts|1993|06}}

| {{dts|1998|02|27}}

| rowspan="2" |Bill Clinton

| William C. Apgar{{cite web |title=PN1146 - Nomination of William C. Apgar Jr. for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 105th Congress (1997-1998) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/105th-congress/1146 |website=www.congress.gov |date=21 October 1998}}

| {{dts|1998|03}}

| {{dts|2001|1|20}}

| John C. Weicher{{cite web|title=HUD Testimony - John C. Weicher, Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner-Designate, 5/15/01 |url=http://www.hud.gov/offices/cir/test51501c.cfm |accessdate=September 27, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304061031/http://www.hud.gov/offices/cir/test51501c.cfm |archivedate=March 4, 2007 }}

| {{dts|2001|06|01}}{{cite web |title=John C. Weicher |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/weicher-bio.html |website=georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov}}

| {{dts|2005}}

| rowspan=2 |George W. Bush

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| rowspan=2| Brian D. Montgomery{{cite web|title=HUD - The Honorable Brian D. Montgomery Assistant Secretary For Housing - Federal Housing Commissioner |url=http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/bios/bmontgomery.cfm |accessdate=September 27, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922100527/http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/bios/bmontgomery.cfm |archivedate=September 22, 2007 |url-status=dead }}

| rowspan=2| {{dts|2005|02}}

| rowspan=2| {{dts|2009|07}}

rowspan=6| Barack Obama

| David H. Stevens{{cite web |title=PN332 - Nomination of David H. Stevens for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 111th Congress (2009-2010) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/111th-congress/332 |website=www.congress.gov |date=10 July 2009}}

| {{dts|2009|07}}

| {{dts|2011|03}}

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|rowspan="2" |Carol Galante{{cite web | title=FHA Commissioner Carol Galante stepping down for University of California post | website=The Washington Post | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fha-commissioner-carol-galante-stepping-down-for-university-of-california-post/2014/08/11/64aa113a-2194-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html | accessdate= September 29, 2015 }}

| style='background: #e6e6aa' |{{dts|2011|07}}

| style='background: #e6e6aa' |{{dts|2012|12}}

|{{dts|2014|10|24}}

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|style='background: #e6e6aa' | Biniam Gebre{{cite web |title=Ed Golding to Replace Biniam Gebre as FHA Head |url=https://www.ncsha.org/blog/ed-golding-to-replace-biniam-gebre-as-fha-head/ |website=NCSHA |access-date=11 July 2021}}

|style='background: #e6e6aa' | {{dts|2014|10}}

|style='background: #e6e6aa' | {{dts|2015|04|07}}

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|style='background: #e6e6aa' | Ed Golding

|style='background: #e6e6aa' | {{dts|2015|04|07}}

|style='background: #e6e6aa' | {{dts|2017|01|20}}

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|style='background: #e6e6aa' | Dana T. Wade{{cite web |title=New HUD FHA Commissioner and Assistant Secretary for Housing |url=https://leadingage.org/regulation/new-hud-fha-commissioner-and-assistant-secretary-housing |website=leadingage.org}}

|style='background: #e6e6aa' | {{dts|2017|07}}

|style='background: #e6e6aa' | {{dts|2018|06|05}}

| rowspan=3 |Donald Trump

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| Brian D. Montgomery{{cite web |title=PN1352 - Nomination of Brian D. Montgomery for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 115th Congress (2017-2018) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/115th-congress/1352 |website=www.congress.gov |date=23 May 2018}}

|{{dts|2018|06|05}}

|{{dts|2020|05|12}}

| Dana T. Wade{{cite web |title=PN1605 - Nomination of Dana T. Wade for Department of Housing and Urban Development, 116th Congress (2019-2020) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/116th-congress/1605 |website=www.congress.gov |date=28 July 2020}}

|{{dts|2020|07|28}}

|{{dts|2021|01|20}}

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|style='background: #e6e6aa' |Janet M. Golrick{{cite web |title=Biden names interim FHA commissioner |url=https://www.mpamag.com/us/news/general/biden-names-interim-fha-commissioner/244418 |website=www.mpamag.com |access-date=11 July 2021 |language=en}}

|style='background: #e6e6aa' |{{dts|2021|01|20}}

|style='background: #e6e6aa' |{{dts|2022|05|20}}

|rowspan=2|Joe Biden

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| Julia Gordon

|{{dts|2022|05|20}}

|{{dts|2025|01|20}}

Previous Federal Housing Commissioners include Carol Galante, who served as Acting Federal Housing Commissioner from July 2011 until she was confirmed by the Senate in December 2012. She served as Federal Housing Commissioner until October 2014, when she stepped down to take a faculty position at the University of California at Berkeley. Before her, Brian D. Montgomery, who was confirmed in February 2005 served as Federal Housing Commissioner. The previous Federal Housing Commissioner was John C. Weicher.

References

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