HUD Chief Is Eager for Change
Shaun Donovan Seeks to Elevate Agency's Role in Urban Life
June Fletcher
Updated March 22, 2009 8:43 am ET
WASHINGTON -- One of the most surprising critics of the Department of Housing and Urban Development is the agency's own chief executive, Shaun Donovan. And if he has his way, people who have never before given much thought to the federal agency, which is tasked with increasing access to affordable housing, will feel its reach.
Leaning forward on a dainty couch in his enormous office on Tuesday, the 42-year-old HUD Secretary explained how eager he was to reorganize an agency that seemed mostly irrelevant during his early career...