housing and urban development
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Ben Carson's HUD Charges Facebook With Housing Discrimination in Ads
Facebook is supposed to just be Instagram for old people, yet they keep finding themselves embattled in all kinds of skullduggery. In 2018, Facebook found itself involved in some 21 scandals, including: Russians creating fake Facebook accounts to stir up shit before the 2016 election and Cambridge Analytica stealing the data of tens of millions…
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New Trump Administration Policy Would Make Racism OK as Long as You Don't Mean It
While America is engaged in a heated debate about the border wall and the government shutdown, at least three cabinet-level departments inside the Trump administration have been quietly investigating how they could roll back a particularly important legal precedent that prevents discrimination in housing, employment, policing and even education. The Washington Post reports that the…
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Gifted Handouts: How Questionable Ethics Are Plaguing Ben Carson's Time at HUD
Even before the President nominated Ben Carson to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, many, including Carson, raised questions about his qualifications to lead a federal agency. However, after 16 months on the job, Carson’s inability to abide by ethical guidelines has undermined his work at HUD even more than his inexperience. Now…
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Ben Carson Backs Off Newest HUD Plan, Which Would Raise Rent for Poor Households by 20 Percent
During a press conference in Detroit on Thursday, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson appeared to back off from a controversial plan that would have raised rent among the poorest Americans. Talking about the new initiative, Carson said that other funding had come through, so there was no need to increase rent payments,…
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Civil Rights Group to Sue Ben Carson and HUD for Removing Obama-Era Housing Rule
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, aka “Dr. Ben Carson,” aka “Breakfront,” aka “Mumbles,” aka “Solo,” is under fire again: A housing-rights group plans to file a federal lawsuit against him and his department for suspending an Obama-era rule that required those developments receiving federal funds to submit plans in order…
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A Conspiracy Theory as to Why HUD Wants to Raise Rent on Low-Income Housing
The more conspiracy sober-minded among us saw this coming a mile away—even if we had on Ben Carson’s thick glasses. This is only a theory, mind you, but let’s take a walk down the rabbit hole, shall we? Let’s suppose that when Carson, a black man who spent his career as a neurosurgeon, was named…
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Ben ‘Mumbles’ Carson Needs to Ask the Wizard of Oz for a Brain, and Then He Needs to Operate on It
Ben “Mumbles” Carson didn’t want to be secretary of housing and urban development, and when he was offered the job, he should have turned it down. Instead, the highly decorated neurosurgeon is operating in full public view, and he’s a damn mess. He’s worse than a mess; he’s a mess wrapped inside an atrocity that…
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HUD Official Tries to Apologize for Calling April Ryan ‘Miss Piggy,’ Realizes Too Late that April Ryan Is Not the One
Well, Housing and Urban Development official Lynne Patton tried it with White House reporter April Ryan. And realized way too late that Ryan is really not the one. Normally, in the black community, I feel we have a good idea of people not to test. We don’t test our grandmothers, we usually don’t test that…
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Ben Carson Thinks Poverty Is Just a ‘State of Mind’ Passed Down From Parents to Their Children
Dr. Ben Carson, secretary of housing and urban development, said in an interview released Wednesday that poverty is a “state of mind” children learn from their parents, and that a “certain mindset” contributes to people living in poverty. Carson, who was being interviewed on SiriusXM Radio by longtime friend Armstrong Williams, said, “I think poverty…
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Steve Harvey Says Donald Trump Is Keeping His Promises
Steve Harvey is still drinking Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo Kool-Aid and says Trump is keeping his promises about affordable housing. “Well, I mean as far as doing he promised me to do, he’s doing it. I’m working with HUD. I’m going to get some housing for underprivileged people,” Harvey said when TMZ caught up with him.…