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She's inheriting an agency in crisis after the Senate confirmed her Wednesday in a 66-34 vote.
If Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) is confirmed as housing Secretary as expected, she’ll be confronting a cascade of crises. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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The Senate confirmed Marcia Fudge as the next housing secretary in a 66-34 vote Wednesday, clearing the way for her to take on a cascade of crises: millions of people facing eviction amid a pandemic, a rise in homelessness, soaring housing prices worsening a years-long affordable housing crunch.
And when Fudge reports for work at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Brutalist headquarters in Southwest D.C. — what her predecessor Ben Carson called the “ugliest building” in the city — she’ll also be taking over an agency that is itself in crisis.