Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner is touting a “paradigm shift” in the Trump administration’s approach to homelessness, as officials pursue new limits to public housing benefits and seek to shift the burden of housing support away from the federal government and towards nonprofit and faith-based groups.

In an interview with Scripps News, Turner said the administration is focusing on public-private partnerships, working to make it easier to build relationships with faith-based entities and approaching homelessness from a “holistic standpoint.”

“The federal government is not the answer,” Turner argued. “The real answer is in the private sector. It's in these faith-based entities and institutions, and we've seen them around the country that are not only housing, okay,

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