The Trump Administration’s Sunday Morning Coronavirus Messaging Was a Disaster
Screenshot This Week/ABC Members of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force fanned out on the Sunday morning talk shows to deliver a message about the administration’s handling of COVID-19—only, it’s unclear what exactly that message is. Pressed by journalists to provide numbers and a plan, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and Surgeon General…
Ben Carson Shows He’s Not Actually Interested in Making Cities Affordable
Jeff Malet/ZUMA Last summer, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson sparked a glimmer of hope among (still-skeptical) housing advocates when he spoke in support of creating federal incentives for local governments to loosen restrictive zoning codes that make housing less affordable. On Friday, he extinguished it. HUD is preparing to release a new…
HUD’s Lynne Patton Had a Surprising Take on Kicking Undocumented Immigrants Out of Public Housing
J. Scott Applewhite/AP On Tuesday, Lynne Patton, Department of Housing and Urban Development regional administrator and longtime Trump family friend, appeared to have reservations about a proposed HUD rule that would remove undocumented immigrants from federally-subsidized housing and leave tens of thousands of people homeless. “Do I think that this proposal is a priority when we…