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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) last week announced that it would disperse $131.3 million to local public housing authorities across the country to provide affordable housing to non-elderly people with disabilities. The plan was unveiled during HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s trip to Detroit, where his agency…
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson has faced significant backlash after he made denigrating comments about transgender people at a staff meeting on Tuesday in San Francisco. Democrats have also called for Carson’s resignation since The Washington Post reported it. In his speech, Carson said that “big, hairy…
If anyone still thinks that Ben Carson is qualified to run the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), here is a reminder that he is not. During the House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday when California Rep. Katie Porter asked him about the meaning of the acronym “REO,”…
America’s most controversial neurosurgeon, Ben Carson, claims he will be stepping down from his position as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) after this presidential term. This will mean President Trump’s only Black cabinet member will be exiting the White House in 2020. Carson’s tenure has been riddled…
Along with Facebook allowing Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, the social media company has created a space for property owners to discriminate against people of color, and the federal government had to step in. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has filed a new…
President Donald Trump appointed Ben Carson secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) without any prior experience except that Carson “grew up in an inner city.” Now Carson is leaving the door wide open for housing discrimination. Civil rights groups, including the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA),…
A year after beginning his position of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary,Ben Carsonhasdecided that it’s time to update the agency’s mission statement and remove words and phrases like “inclusion” and “free from discrimination.” The agency confirmed on Wednesday that a leaked draft of the new mission statement reads: “HUD’s…
Lynne Patton, former aide to Eric Trump turned United States Housing and Urban Development (HUD) official, has followed the lead of President Donald Trump in using Twitter to bash people especially journalists. Patton instigated a Twitter feud with veteran journalist April Ryan, calling her “Miss Piggy.” The head of HUD’s…
If TV host and comedian Steve Harvey could go back in time, he wouldn’t have agreed to a private sit-down meeting with President Donald Trump in January. Harvey said he should have taken his wife’s advice and instead set sail on a planned boat trip for his birthday. Before Trump’s…
Dr. Ben S. Carson Sr. was sworn in March 2 as the 17th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Carson now leads a Cabinet agency with approximately 8,000 employees and oversees an annual budget totaling more than $40 billion. In his very first speech to…