The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs voted on May 11 to move forward with the appointments of Solomon Greene and David Uejio as assistant secretaries at HUD. The Senate must now confirm both nominees for their positions. No date has yet been set for the confirmation hearings.
President Joe Biden nominated Mr. Greene to serve as assistant secretary of HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, where he would advise HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge on HUD’s policies, program evaluations, demonstrations, and research, including data and statistics on housing and community development. Mr. Greene is currently principal deputy assistant secretary of the office.
The President nominated Mr. Uejio to serve as assistant secretary of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at HUD, where he would help lead HUD’s enforcement of fair housing and civil rights laws. Mr. Uejio currently serves as the acting associate director for supervision, enforcement, and fair lending at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
NLIHC wrote a letter of support urging Mr. Greene’s confirmation two years ago, but partisan divisions among Senate Republicans halted his confirmation. To counteract the recurrence of this problem, the 117th Congress passed a resolution (S. Res 27) to discharge a committee from a nomination if the vote results in a tie. The resolution allows for the confirmation to be sent to the Senate floor, where in this case Mr. Greene could be confirmed by a simple majority of 51 votes. NLIHC also signed a letter of support led by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to confirm Mr. Uejio to his position (see Memo, 12/5/22).