The U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement says its present workers use solely half the obtainable workplace area and that relocating will “cut back the burden on the American taxpayer.”
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement 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 workplace areas the place they work.
In asserting the plan, the company stated its 1968 constructing in Washington, D.C., at the moment faces over $500 million in deferred “upkeep and modernization.” It stated present workers occupy solely half the area and that relocating will “cut 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 constructing 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 individuals.”
The company didn’t say how a lot it is asking for the constructing.
DOGE, the cost-cutting group overseen by billionaire Elon Musk, has focused reducing HUD workers by half, in response to an inside doc seen by NPR.
HUD headquarters, formally referred to as the Robert C. Weaver Federal Constructing, is now up on the market, though that could possibly be sophisticated by its itemizing within the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations. The company stated a timeline and closing location should 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 companies extra flexibility to find exterior of metropolis facilities. He revoked two earlier orders, by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Invoice Clinton, that had inspired companies to find in enterprise districts and historic properties.
Trump’s order stated these previous measures “prevented companies from relocating to lower-cost amenities,” and that companies “have to be the place the persons are.”
