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Trump-Linked Group That Battled Hillary Clinton in 2016 Rebranded This Year to Attack Critical Race Theory in Virginia
A group that attacked critical race theory during Virginia’s gubernatorial race is tied to Trump allies Newt Gingrich and Ben Carson.
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Former Trump HUD Official Barred From Government Job for 4 Years Over Hatch Act Violation
The Office of Special Counsel said former HUD official Lynne Patton had misused her position to help the Trump campaign.
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Trump Cabinet Officials Condemn Capitol Riot But Avoid Criticizing the President
Members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet issued harsh rebukes of the mayhem at the U.S. Capitol.
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Fourth Person From Trump's Election Night Party at White House Tests Positive for Coronavirus
More than 30 people connected to the Trump White House and campaign have had Covid-19 in the past two months.
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HUD Secretary's Notes Show He's Upset With WH Appointments
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson’s notes at a podium were photographed Friday, revealing his unhappiness about the White House’s personnel appointments to his agency
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Day 4 of the 2020 Republican National Convention
Take a look back at some of the key takeaways from the final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention.
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HUD Revokes Obama-era Rule Designed to Diversify the Suburbs
The Trump administration said Thursday that it is revoking an Obama-era housing regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs, a move that fair housing advocates have decried as an election year stunt designed to manipulate the fears of white voters
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Trump Admin. Moves to Repeal Transgender Protections in Homeless Shelters
The Trump administration plans to move forward with a measure that would permit federally funded homeless shelters to house transgender clients according to their sex assigned at birth.
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HUD's Fair Housing Policies Could Promote Further Racial Discrimination, Experts Say
But fair housing advocates and organizations around the country fear that discriminatory practices could return under a proposal by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and the Trump administration., NBC News reports.
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Ben Carson Stumbles Over Acronyms in House Hearing
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson testified at a House Financing Committee hearing Tuesday, May 21, 2019, where representatives Joyce Beatty (D., Ohio) and Katie Porter (D., Calif.) stumped him with questions about acronyms relating to his federal department.
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Carson Won't Say If He'd Let Grandmother Live in Public Housing
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson was asked Tuesday by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., if he would let his grandmother live in public housing. Their heated exchange came during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee.
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HUD Agrees to Provide $5 Million for Carbon Monoxide Detectors in Public Housing After Deaths
The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it would provide $5 million to install carbon monoxide detectors in public housing, after an NBC News investigation revealed the lack of protections for millions of low-income tenants who live in federally subsidized rental units. The funding for public housing authorities represents “the first time HUD is targeting grants specifically for...
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Government Audit: Carson's $40K Office Purchases Broke Law
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson violated the law when his department spent more than $40,000 to purchase a dining set and a dishwasher for his office’s executive dining room, government auditors concluded. In a report released Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said HUD failed to notify Congress before exceeding a $5,000 limit set by Congress to furnish or...
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New Housing Commissioner Gets First-Hand Look at Crumbling Foundations
In her first two weeks on the job, Connecticut’s new Housing Commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno says she’s been inundated with information about the crumbling foundations crisis, first uncovered by NBC Connecticut Investigates in July of 2015.
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Crumbling Foundation Proposals Emerge in Washington
Connecticut’s U.S. senators have been joined by Massachusetts’ U.S. senators in their efforts to combat the crisis that has led to hundreds, and potentially thousands of homes crumbling to the ground.
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Congress Members Press HUD on State of Hartford Complexes
Some of Connecticut’s members of Congress are pressing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to do more to address the state of decrepit housing complexes in Hartford.
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House Democrats Investigate HUD's ‘Failure' to Act as Shutdown Threatens Affordable Housing
House Democrats are using their new oversight authority to investigate the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s management of the shutdown, as questions mount about HUD’s failure to renew low-income housing contracts for more than 1,000 properties across the country, NBC News reported. “HUD knew for months about this impending deadline to renew the contracts, but for some reason they...
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Under Carson, More Families Live in Housing That Fails Inspection
An NBC News investigation has found that more than 1,000 out of HUD’s nearly 28,000 federally subsidized multifamily properties failed their most recent inspection — a failure rate that is more than 30 percent higher than in 2016, according to an analysis of HUD records. From his earliest days in office, HUD Secretary Ben Carson has repeatedly said he joined...
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Veteran Homelessness Declines 5 Percent Over 2017 Numbers
HUD said veteran homelessness decreased from 2017 to 2018 in California.
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Ben Carson Calls Kavanaugh Opponents ‘Desperate'
Housing Secretary Ben Carson is attributing the controversy over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination to people who want to “fundamentally change this country.” Carson said Friday that Kavanaugh’s opponents have become “desperate.” “And now they don’t see themselves as being able to control the courts for another generation,” Carson added. “So what is left? Chaos and destruction.” Carson made the...