--- title: Ben Carson HUD Confirmation Hearing: Watch Live description: Ben Carson will face questions from the Senate Banking Committee Thursday morning to answer questions on his nomination as HUD Secretary canonical: https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-12T14:18:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:41:33.299Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Ben Carson's Confirmation Hearing to Be Trump's HUD Secretary og:description: Carson is expected to highlight his time growing up in poverty og:url: https://time.com/4632725/ben-carson-donald-trump-hud-confirmation-hearing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53790140ba8668ea/6988b549cd1bbabd99703926/ben-carson-hud-hearing.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ben carson HUD hearing og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Ben Carson's Confirmation Hearing to Be Trump's HUD Secretary twitter:description: Carson is expected to highlight his time growing up in poverty twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53790140ba8668ea/6988b549cd1bbabd99703926/ben-carson-hud-hearing.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: Ben Carson's Confirmation Hearing to Be Donald Trump's HUD Secretary  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 12, 2017 2:18 PM UTC  Ben Carson, secretary of U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nominee for President-elect Donald Trump, arrives in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Ben Carson, secretary of U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nominee for President-elect Donald Trump, arrives in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, U.S., on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016.Albin Lohr-Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 12, 2017 2:18 PM UTC [Ben Carson](http://time.com/4581034/donald-trump-ben-carson-hud-secretary/) will appear before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Thursday morning to face questions related to his nomination as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and former GOP presidential candidate, has no experience in housing and urban policy and is expected to focus on stories of his impoverished upbringing in inner city Detroit. “I understand housing insecurity—we were forced to move from Detroit to Boston to live with relatives because she couldn’t afford our house,” Carson will say, according to [testimony released before the hearing](http://www.banking.senate.gov/public/%5Fcache/files/81838fb8-b48d-4714-b5af-6d5714c49f2f/4643FEF719ECD05E9ABB6E26F4578B67.011217-carson-testimony.pdf). 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