The director for the U.S. territory's housing authority and its spokesperson did not immediately return messages seeking comment. In a post on X, Turner accused officials with the U.S. Virgin Islands' Housing Finance Authority of prioritizing "kickbacks over helping families recover from disasters." In a July 20 letter to the head of the U.S. Virgin Islands' housing authority, HUD said that its "record demonstrates that it is an abysmal steward of taxpayer funds." The investigation so far has found that the U.S. Virgin Islands' housing authority has completed only two of 95 planned single-family rental rehabilitation projects and zero of 329 single and multifamily housing projects. Meanwhile, the Virgin Islands housing authority has spent more than half the grant funds slated for administrative costs, according to the letter.