US Politics in Trump era
Trump proposal would evict undocumented immigrants from public housing
Ben Carson’s HUD dials back investigations into housing discrimination
Beyond his attempts to roll back the agency’s fair-housing rules, Carson is overseeing a department whose fair-housing budget and staffing have been cut. And, notably, he has departed from the practices of recent Democratic and Republican predecessors of using their secretarial power to root out systemic racial discrimination by launching broad-based investigations into bias by banks, real estate companies and others.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose tripling rent for some low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson onWednesdaywill propose tripling the amount the poorest households are expected to pay for rent as well as encourage those receiving housing subsidies to work, according to the administration’s legislative proposal obtained by The Washington Post.