Shaun Donovan is CEO and president of the housing nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners. He served as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and White House budget director during the Obama administration.
The White House unveils its fiscal 2014 budget request.
The nation's most vulnerable families will be hard hit by the budget cuts triggered by sequestration.
Renter households with worst-case needs ballooned to a record 8.5 million in 2011, a dramatic increase from about 5.9 million in 2007.
Millions of U.S. homes have moderate to severe physical housing problems, which can cause a wide range of health issues.
As HUD secretary for the past four years and now point person of the Sandy recovery effort, Donovan is focused on making revitalization last.