Planned Cabinet Reshuffle Includes HUD

A May 18, 2014 New York Times article, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro Is Said to Be HUD Pick in Cabinet Reshuffling, announced that President Obama plans to nominate San Antonio, Texas Mayor Julián Castro as his new Secretary of HUD.

Current HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan is slated to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as that job is being vacated by Sylvia Mathews Burwell.  Ms. Burwell is headed to Senate confirmation as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, succeeding Kathleen Sebelius, who announced last month that she was resigning.

Julián Castro, 39, won national attention in 2012 as the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention.  He has served as San Antonio’s mayor since 2009.  According to close associates, Mr. Castro (a Mexican-American whose mother once worked at the San Antonio Housing Authority) is interested in the HUD post because it would allow him to work on issues he has focused on as mayor.