Overview
- Ed Augustus will resign as housing secretary on Feb. 27 to become UniBank’s CEO, replacing the retiring Michael Welch, with a March 2 start expected.
- Deputy Secretary Jennifer Maddox will serve as interim leader until April 1, when Juana Matias takes office as housing secretary.
- Matias previously served as HUD’s New England regional administrator, where she managed an $8.47 billion annual budget overseeing major voucher and public housing programs.
- Augustus is the eighth cabinet secretary to depart since Healey took office in 2023, following Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler’s exit earlier this month.
- As the first housing secretary in more than three decades, Augustus led the new housing office, advanced a five-year plan and permitting reforms including ADUs, and managed an over-capacity emergency shelter system.