Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Eric Scott Turner said his main goal would be to tackle the housing shortage.

Democrats and Republicans alike called for a solution to the U.S. housing crisis and repeatedly stressed the urgency of building up housing inventory during a Thursday morning Senate confirmation hearing for Scott Turner,

Scott Turner, an official during the first Trump administration, said that the country was not building enough homes and that the housing department was “failing at its most basic mission.”

WASHINGTON — Senators pressed Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Eric Scott Turner on how he would tackle housing affordability and homelessness during a Thursday confirmation hearing.