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September 22, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Whistleblowers Sound Alarm on Trump’s Assault on Fair Housing Act
The Trump administration is eroding enforcement of the landmark civil rights law, claiming it’s DEI nonsense.
April 1, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Has a New “Buyout” Offer for Select Federal Workers
Trump is back to begging federal employees to quit their jobs.
March 12, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Elon Musk’s DOGE Quietly Kills Affordable Housing Program
Trump is making a massive cut to affordable housing, as fears over the economy grow.
February 24, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
HUD TVs Hacked With Wild Video of Trump Kissing Feet of “Real King”
The AI-generated brutally mocks Donald Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk.
Video is available for this article
February 20, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s Next Planned Cuts Guarantee Disaster—Literally
Donald Trump is expected to make cuts at a key HUD team that works on helping America recover from disasters.
February 21, 2024
Kenny Stancil
A Return to Trump’s Housing Policies Would Be a Disaster
The former president made his name as an unscrupulous real estate magnate. So it’s no surprise that he pushed for ideas designed to take from the poor and give to the rich.
April 2, 2021
Tracy Rosenthal
The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing
These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.
November 7, 2019
Elizabeth Greenspan
A Dream of Homeownership, Undermined
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book explains how government policy and the real estate industry worked against black homeowners.
September 20, 2018
Sarah Jones
Ben Carson’s HUD is a quiet scandal.
June 7, 2018
Kaila Philo
Study: Ben Carson’s rent-hike plan puts low-income Americans at risk of homelessness.
October 25, 2017
Emily Atkin
How many years to rebuild Puerto Rico? “Somewhere between 1 and 100,” says Ben Carson.
January 24, 2017
Alex Shephard
Ben Carson finally has something to do with his hands again.
December 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ben Carson will run HUD, which has a $50 billion budget and 8,000 employees. What could go wrong?
May 20, 2014
Brian Beutler
Why Would Obama Put a Rising Democratic Star Into a Cabinet Backwater?
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