Atlanta Mayor Floated For Leading Housing Position In Biden Administration

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms arrives to speak during a drive-in rally for the Biden campaign in October.

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As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office, there’s speculation about who will fill his cabinet. Among the names to emerge for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is Atlanta’s mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms.

To those who support her in Atlanta, the position seemed like a natural fit.

Bottoms campaigned on a promise to bring affordable housing to the city. And over the last three years of her term, her goals have attracted glowing national attention. She now chairs the housing and community development committee for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.