“President-elect has selected Shaun Donovan to be his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Donovan, a former Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development in New York City, will come to Washington with the innovative ideas and new perspective needed to help the thousands of hard-working American families whose livelihoods have been threatened during this tough economic time…Trained as an architect, Shaun understands housing down to how homes are designed, built, and wired.”

• Washington Post, Obama Makes a Point of Speaking of the People, to the People: “Obama will be more directly connected to millions of Americans than any president who has come before him, and he will be able to communicate directly to people using the social networking and Web-based tools such as YouTube that his campaign mastered…”
• Related postings on Obama transition