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Trump Is Looking to Make Housing Discrimination Easier and It’s Not Just Because He’s Racist
Continuing his legacy of desecrating the highest office in the land and undoing all of former President Obama’s good work, the Trump administration is looking to change rules enacted to fight housing discrimination. Which makes sense if you consider that, in 1973, Trump and his father were sued by the Department of Justice for violating…
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HUD Has a Ridiculous Legal Argument for Turning Trans People Away From Federally Funded Shelters
The Trump administration has spared no minority group its vitriol and hate, but transgender people have been especially targeted and maligned by the president and his cabinet. It started with his efforts to ban trans people from serving in the military and denying trans people access to medical care. His latest attack carried out by…
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Ben Carson Doubles Down on Transphobic Comments, Quotes Bible Scriptures
You can actually be the smartest person in the room—on paper—and say the dumbest shit. It’s what some in hood culture call “that smart dumb shit.” Enter Ben Carson, a.k.a. Uncle Ben. The current Housing and Urban Development Secretary is defending what some have deemed as transphobic remarks—and of course accusing the media of spreading…
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Ben Carson Reportedly Speaks of ‘Big, Hairy Men’ Entering Women’s Bathrooms in Comments Called Transphobic
Ben Carson invoked tropes of “big, hairy men” invading women’s bathrooms in shelters and mourned a past when there were “just women and just men” in comments at least three staffers found to be transphobic. That’s according to the Washington Post, which reports that the three staffers requested anonymity fearing retaliation. An official with the…
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Feds Scold HUD Administrator Lynne Patton for Her Political Comments on Company Time
Watch your mouth! That was the word from the feds to Lynne Patton, former Trump event planner and now somehow an administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, over her making political comments while on the clock. According to Politico, the federal Office of Special Counsel has issued a warning to Patton…
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s New Plan Would Make It Harder to Prove Housing Discrimination
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which is run by Ben Carson—aka the Clarence Thomas of the Trump administration—is finishing off Carson’s mission of completely destroying the department before he leaves his post in 2020. According to the Wall Street Journal, HUD released a new proposal on Monday that will effectively end an Obama-era…
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Baltimore Church Gives Ben Carson the Boot as He Scrambles to Demonstrate What He’s Done for That City Lately
Maybe Ben Carson reads The Root because just one day after Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett Jr. noted that Donald Trump’s apologist and only black Cabinet member had “done nothing for Baltimore” since becoming housing secretary, Carson hastily arranged a press conference in Baltimore to show off what he had done. And then he promptly…
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Kamala Harris and AOC Introduce Legislation That Protects Formerly Incarcerated People Against Federal Housing Discrimination
U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is introducing a bill Wednesday with freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) that aims to protect people with criminal records from discriminatory policies in federal housing. According to Sen. Harris’s office, the Fair Chance at Housing Act is designed to cut down on recidivism by helping ex-offenders secure…
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He’s Baack: Trump Appointee Who Quit Consumer Watchdog Agency After Racial Backlash Gets New Government Job at HUD
Apparently, when it comes to the Trump administration, a racially charged past is no bar to being able to stay employed from one post to another. Such seems to be the case with Donald Trump appointee Eric Blankenstein, Politico reports. Just weeks following his quitting his job enforcing fair lending practices for the Consumer Financial…
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Lynne Patton Doesn’t Care If She Violated the Hatch Act Again
When Lynne Patton isn’t violating the sensibilities of hairdressers this side of 1999, she’s possibly violating the Hatch Act, a federal law meant to prevent officials from politicizing positions in the government, starting with her social media habits. Congressional gollywog Patton is tasked with overseeing the largest regions controlled by the Department of Housing and…