The following article by Zack Ford was posted on the ThinkProgress website March 7, 2018:
Ben Carson wants HUD to do less to improve the housing experience across the country.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has a new mission statement, thanks to Secretary Ben Carson — and gone is language about creating communities that are inclusive and free from discrimination or working to strengthen the housing market to protect consumers.
According to a memo sent out Monday to HUD’s political staff and obtained by the Huffington Post, the new proposed mission instead focuses on Carson’s priority of “self-sufficiency”: Continue reading “Ben Carson’s HUD abandons fighting housing discrimination in new mission statement”